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Dictionary English ← German: abschweifen

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NOUN	das Abschweifen \| -	edit
VERB	abschweifen \| schweifte ab/abschweifte \| abgeschweift	edit
SYNO	abschweifen \| abweichen
abschweifen \| abweichen © OpenThesaurus.de

to digress

2696

abschweifen

to straggle [digress from a subject]

142

abschweifen

to stray

111

abschweifen

to divagate

abschweifen

to wander away

abschweifen

to get off the point

abschweifen

to run off the track

abschweifen

to wander from one topic to another

abschweifen

to fly off at a tangent [Br.] [to go off on a tangent]

abschweifen [vom Thema abkommen]

to go off at a tangent [Br.] [idiom] [to go off on a tangent]

abschweifen [vom Thema abkommen]

2 Words

to keep to the point

nicht abschweifen

to stray from sth. [become distracted]

von etw.^Dat. abschweifen

to deviate from sth. [fig.] [thoughts, subject, etc.]

von etw. abschweifen

to swerve from sth. [duty, subject, etc.]

von etw. abschweifen

3 Words

idiom to go off on tangents

(immer wieder) abschweifen [vom Thema abkommen]

to go off track [idiom] [to go off topic; about a person, presentation, etc.]

(vom Thema) abschweifen

to go off on a tangent [idiom]

(vom Thema) abschweifen

to get off the track [idiom]

vom Thema abschweifen

to wander off the point

vom Thema abschweifen

to wander off the subject

vom Thema abschweifen

4 Words

to ramble in one's talk / speech

in der Rede abschweifen

to wander from the path of duty

von der Pflicht abschweifen

to wander from the truth

von der Wahrheit abschweifen

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