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Verb wander has 5 senses
- roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond - 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"
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
They wander the countryside
They wander in the countryside
- cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander - be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
--2 is one way to deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
=> Somebody ----s
- wander - go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"
--3 is one way to proceed, go forward, continue
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- weave, wind, thread, meander, wander - 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"
--4 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- digress, stray, divagate, wander - 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"
--5 is one way to tell
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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