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wander

 
Verb wander has 5 senses
  1. roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond - 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 rolled from town to town"
    --1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Derived forms: noun wanderer1, noun wandering1
    Sample sentences:
    They wander the countryside
    They wander in the countryside
  2. cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander - be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
    --2 is one way to deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    => Somebody ----s
  3. wander - go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"
    --3 is one way to
    proceed, go forward, continue
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
  4. weave, wind, thread, meander, wander - 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"
    --4 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Sample sentences:
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
  5. digress, stray, divagate, wander - 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"
    --5 is one way to tell
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
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