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Meaning of wander

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  wander
      v 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"
           [syn: {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?"
         [syn: {cheat on}, {cheat}, {cuckold}, {betray}, {wander}]
      3: go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we
         wandered into town"
      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" [syn: {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" [syn:
         {digress}, {stray}, {divagate}, {wander}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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