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8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
originFirst attested in 1599; borrowed from Latin dīvagātus, perfect active participle of dīvagor (“to wander here and there”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin dis- (“in different direction”) + vagor (“to wander”). Cognate with French divaguer.
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