digress

1. (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.Examples: "Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude."; "In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term."; "[…] For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress.)"Synonyms: sidetrack, stray, divagateintransitive

2. (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.Examples: "Thy overflow of good converts to bad; And thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot in thy digressing son."intransitive