go astray

go astray
Synonyms and related words:
abort, backslide, be in error, be mistaken, be wrong, degenerate, depart, deviate, digress, divagate, drift, err, excurse, fall, fall into error, get sidetracked, go adrift, go amiss, go awry, go wrong, lapse, maunder, meander, misbelieve, miscalculate, miscarry, misfire, miss, miss out, miss stays, miss the boat, miss the mark, pererrate, ramble, rove, serve Mammon, slip, slip up, snake, straggle, stray, stumble, trip, turn aside, twist, twist and turn, wander, wind

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • astray — I adjective aberrant, adrift, afield, amiss, awry, circuitous, deviating, errant, erratic, indirect, lost, misguided, misled, off center, out of one s bearings, out of one s reckoning, random, round about, straying, undirected, unguided II index… …   Law dictionary

  • astray — *amiss …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • astray — [adj] off the path or right direction adrift, afield, amiss, awry, gone, lost, off, off course, off the mark, roaming, straying, vanished, wandering, wrong; concepts 545,581 Ant. on course, right, straight …   New thesaurus

  • astray — ► ADVERB ▪ away from the correct path or direction. ORIGIN from Old French estraie, from Latin extra out of bounds + vagari wander …   English terms dictionary

  • astray — [ə strā′] adv., adj. [ME < pp. of OFr estraier, STRAY] 1. off the right path or way; wandering 2. in error …   English World dictionary

  • astray — a|stray [əˈstreı] adv [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: estraié wandering , from estraier; STRAY1] 1.) go astray a) to be lost or stolen ▪ The letter had gone astray in the post. b) if a plan or action goes astray, it goes wrong ▪ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • astray — [[t]əstre͟ɪ[/t]] 1) PHRASE: V inflects If you are led astray by someone or something, you behave badly or foolishly because of them. The judge thought he d been led astray by older children. 2) PHRASE: V inflects If someone or something leads you …   English dictionary

  • astray — adverb 1 go astray a) to become lost: One of the documents has gone astray. b) humorous to start behaving in an immoral way 2 lead sb astray a) often humorous to encourage someone to do bad or immoral things that they would not normally do: His… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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