Idioms
- 1to become lost; to be stolen Several letters went astray or were not delivered. We locked up our valuables so they would not go astray.
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- 2to go in the wrong direction or to have the wrong result Fortunately the gunman's shots went astray. Jack's parents thought the other boys might lead him astray (= make him do things that are wrong). The argument is so complex, a reader might easily go astray.
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