meander
/miˈæn.dɚ/ verb C2- To wind or turn in a course or passage · The stream meandered through the valley.
- To be intricate. · His speech meandered through various topics.
- To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
He/she/it meanders · Past meandered · Past participle meandered · -ing form meandering
Verb forms
- Base form
- meander
- He/she/it
- meanders
- Past
- meandered
- Past participle
- meandered
- -ing form
- meandering
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From under the door there curled a little red ribbon of blood, which had meandered across the passage and formed a little pool along the skirting at the other side.
A paper map, by contrast, presents the traveler with a vast landscape of tantalizing possibilities and alternative, meandering routes.
Vacations were no longer constrained by the agonizingly slow pace of winding, two-lane rural roads that meandered endlessly through every tiny hamlet.
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