wan·der /ˈwɒndər/
1. 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"
synset: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
2. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
synset: cheat_on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander
3. go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"
synset: wander
4. 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"
synset: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander
5. 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"
synset: digress, stray, divagate, wander
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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