wander
/ˈwɑndɚ/ verb A2- To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. · to wander over the fields
- To stray; stray from one's course; err. · A writer wanders from his subject.
- To commit adultery.
- To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
- Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
He/she/it wanders · Past wandered · Past participle wandered · -ing form wandering
Verb forms
- Base form
- wander
- He/she/it
- wanders
- Past
- wandered
- Past participle
- wandered
- -ing form
- wandering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The boys, who had to wriggle hastily down from the trees, were later; and Anne, who had not been picking gum at all but was wandering happily in the far end of the grove, waist deep among the bracken, singing softly to herself, with a wreath of rice lilies on her hair as if she were some wild divinity of the shadowy places, was latest of all.
One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well.
He neither rode nor shot, but spent his days in wandering round the old village with his pipe in his mouth, or in driving with his host, or in his absence with his hostess, over the beautiful countryside.
Birds sang around Green Gables; the Madonna lilies in the garden sent out whiffs of perfume that entered in on viewless winds at every door and window, and wandered through halls and rooms like spirits of benediction.
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