Dictionary English ← German: abschweifen

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NOUN   das Abschweifen | -
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VERB   abschweifen | schweifte ab/abschweifte | abgeschweift
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SYNO   abschweifen | abweichen
to digress
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abschweifen
to straggle [digress from a subject]
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abschweifen
to stray
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abschweifen
to divagate
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abschweifen
to wander awayabschweifen
to get off the pointabschweifen
to run off the trackabschweifen
to wander from one topic to anotherabschweifen
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]
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to keep to the pointnicht 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
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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 pointvom Thema abschweifen
to wander off the subjectvom Thema abschweifen
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to ramble in one's talk / speechin der Rede abschweifen
to wander from the path of dutyvon der Pflicht abschweifen
to wander from the truthvon der Wahrheit abschweifen
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