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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aimless walk |
| Synonyms: | constitutional, excursion, hike, perambulation, peregrination, roaming, roving, saunter, stroll, tour, traipse, trip, turn |
| Main Entry: | ramble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk aimlessly, endlessly |
| Synonyms: | amplify, babble, be diffuse, beat around bush, blather, chatter, depart, descant, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, drivel, dwell on, enlarge, excurse, expatiate, get off the subject, go astray, go off on tangent, go on and on, gossip, harp on, lose the thread, maunder, meander, prose, protract, rant and rave, rattle on, stray, talk nonsense, talk off top of head, talk randomly, wander |
| Antonyms: | be direct |
| Main Entry: | amble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk casually |
| Synonyms: | ankle, boogie, dawdle, drift, gander, hoof it, loiter, meander, mosey, percolate*, ramble, sashay, saunter, stroll, toddle, wander |
| Antonyms: | run |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | constitutional |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | walk |
| Synonyms: | airing, ambulation, footwork, legwork, perambulation, ramble, saunter, stroll, turn, walk |
| Main Entry: | depart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diverge from normal, expected |
| Synonyms: | abandon, cast, desert, deviate, differ, digress, disagree, discard, dissent, excurse, forsake, ramble, reject, repudiate, stray, swerve, turn aside, vary, veer, wander |
| Antonyms: | continue, keep to, linger, stay, wait |
| Main Entry: | digress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stray, deviate |
| Synonyms: | aberrate, be diffuse, beat about the bush, circumlocute, depart, divagate, drift, excurse, get off the point, get off the subject, get sidetracked, go by way of, go off on a tangent, long way, meander, ramble, roam, swerve, turn aside, veer, wander, wander away |
| Antonyms: | be direct, stay |
| Main Entry: | diverge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go in different directions |
| Synonyms: | bend, bifurcate, branch, branch off, depart, deviate, digress, divagate, divaricate, divide, excurse, fork, part, radiate, ramble, separate, split, spread, stray, swerve, veer, wander |
| Antonyms: | agree, converge, join, parallel |
| Main Entry: | drive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | journey by vehicle |
| Synonyms: | Sunday drive, airing, commute, excursion, expedition, hitch, jaunt, joyride, lift, outing, pickup, ramble, ride, run, spin, tour, trip, turn, whirl |
| Main Entry: | drivel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk foolishly |
| Synonyms: | babble, blabber, blather, blethe, gab, gabble, prate, prattle, ramble, twaddle, waffle |
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