Usually means: Taking an alternative, longer route.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word detouring:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. detouring: Merriam-Webster
  2. detouring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detouring: Vocabulary.com
  4. Detouring, detouring: Wordnik
  5. detouring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. detouring: Wiktionary
  7. detouring: Dictionary.com
  8. detouring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. detouring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detouring: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detouring: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detouring)

▸ noun:  The act of taking a detour.

Similar:
roundabout way, diversion, digression, excursion, devitation, derailing, deflexure, detraction, detorsion, detortion, more...

Opposite:
directing, guiding, leading, routing

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Similar:
roundabout way, diversion, digression, excursion, devitation, derailing, deflexure, detraction, detorsion, detortion, more...

Opposite:
directing, guiding, leading, routing



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