The verb wander describes something that has lost track. If you're watching a boring movie, your mind might begin to wander. If you don't have a clear goal, you could wander too meaning you drift aimlessly.
To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove;
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lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don''t digress when you give a lecture"
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move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They ro
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to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
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go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"
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be sexually unfaithful to one''s partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
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.
v. i.
To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go
astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
v. i.
To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason;
to rave; as, the mind wanders.
v. t.
To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to
stroll through.
Wander
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
He wandereth abroad for bread.2.
When God caused me to wander from my father's house.
O, let me not wander from thy commandments.3.
Wander
To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove;
To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
Usage Examples
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Other Usage ExamplesMy poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.
I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.