Word.ws English Dictionary

detoured

detoured is the simple past and past participle of detour.

Meaning of detour

Verb

detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)

  1. (intransitive) To make a detour.
    • Petrelis detoured away from southern activities to visit Chicago and help draw attention to lesbian, gay and AIDS issues during the Illinois primary March 16.1988 April 9, Elizabeth Pincus, “Freedom Ride Supports Southern Les/Gay Visibility”, in Gay Community News, page 3
  2. (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

See all 5 meanings of detour

Questions about detoured

What is detoured the simple past and past participle of?
Detoured is the simple past and past participle of detour.

Words near detoured in the dictionary

  1. detotalize
  2. detotalized
  3. detotalizes
  4. detotalizing
  5. detour
  6. detoured
  7. detouring
  8. detourings
  9. detouristified
  10. detouristifies
  11. detouristify

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: detoured (page history and authors); detour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “detoured.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/detoured. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.