wander

verb

1. 1

   To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

   to wander over the fields

   They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

   “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

   There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

2. 2

   To stray; stray from one's course; err.

   A writer wanders from his subject.

   O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

3. 3

   To commit adultery.

4. 4

   To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.

5. 5

   Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

noun

1. 1

   An act or instance of wandering.

   to go for a wander in the park

2. 2

   Deviation from a correct or normal value.

   baseline wander in ECG signals

Forms

plural

wanders

past tense

wandered

past participle

wandered

present participle

wandering

third person singular

wanders