| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To separate into branches or branchlike parts: bifurcate, branch (out), divide, fork, ramify, subdivide. See PART. 2. To turn away from a prescribed course of action or conduct: depart, deviate, digress, stray, swerve, veer. Archaic : err. See APPROACH, CORRECT. 3. To be unlike or dissimilar: differ, disagree, vary. Idioms: be at variance. See SAME. 4. To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking: deviate, digress, divagate, ramble, stray, wander. Idioms: go off at (or on) a tangent. See APPROACH.
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