Synonyms of the word

straggle

• v. To stray from the road, course or line of march.
• v. To wander about; ramble.
• v. To spread at irregular intervals.
• v. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot…
• v. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
• n. An irregular, spread-out group.
• n. An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.

depart

• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. (intransitive) To set out on a journey.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate (from).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To go away from; to leave.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
• n. (obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances.
• n. (obsolete) A going away; departure.

deviate

• n. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
• n. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic…
• v. (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

digress

• v. (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject…
• v. (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

distribute

• v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
• v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
• v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
• v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
• v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
• v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
• v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
• v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
• v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

divert

• v. (transitive) To turn aside from a course.
• v. (transitive) To distract.
• v. (transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn aside; to digress.

group

• n. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
• n. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element,…
• n. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
• n. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
• n. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
• n. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
• n. (chemistry) A functional group.
• n. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
• n. (military) An air force formation.
• n. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
• n. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution…
• n. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
• n. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely…
• n. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing…
• v. (transitive) To put together to form a group.
• v. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.

grouping

• n. A collection of things or people united as a group.
• n. The action of the verb to group.
• v. present participle of group.

sidetrack

• n. (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined…
• n. (sometimes) Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main…
• n. (mining) A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
• n. An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the…
• v. To divert (a locomotive) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
• v. To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant…
• v. To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate…
• v. (intransitive) To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.

sprawl

• v. To sit with the limbs spread out.
• v. To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
• n. An ungainly sprawling posture.
• n. A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.