Thesaurus: wander

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1. v. i. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
2. v. i. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
3. v. i. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
4. v. t. To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
5. v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
6. v. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
7. v. go via an indirect route or at no set pace
8. v. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
9. v. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
10. 1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for bread. Job xv. 23. 2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject. When God caused me to wander from my father's house. Gen. xx. 13. O, let me not wander from thy commandments. Ps. cxix. 10. 3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders. Syn. -- To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err; swerve; deviate; depart. To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [R.] "[Elijah] wandered this barren waste." Milton.
11. To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to strollthrough. [R.] "[Elijah] wandered this barren waste." Milton.
12. n:1/v:99 v. go via an indirect route or at no set pace