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Wander vs Inwander - What's the difference?

wander | inwander |

As verbs the difference between wander and inwander

is that wander is (lb) to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood while inwander is to wander in.

As a noun wander

is the act or instance of wandering.

wander

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) xi.37:
  • *: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.
  • (lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:
  • *:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • (lb) To commit adultery.
  • (lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
  • (lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

    • Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)

    Synonyms

    * (move without purpose) err, roam * (commit adultery) cheat * (go somewhere indirectly) * (lose focus) drift

    Derived terms

    * wander off * wanderer * wanderlust

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or instance of wandering.
    • To go for a wander

    Anagrams

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    inwander

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wander in.
  • *1900 , Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection:
    • Around edge note nuclei seem intent on leaving second row to inwander ; [...]
  • *1971 , Giuseppe Reverberi, Experimental embryology of marine and fresh-water invertebrates :
    • The cells of the equatorial region, which normally inwander last, and which should in fact lie in the entoderm of the subsequent budding tip of the hydrocaulus, [...]
  • *1990 , Seminars in developmental biology:
    • It has a basal actin cortex (arrows). The mesenchymal cell is inwandering and has no free surface.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)