astray
adverb/əˈstreɪ/
/əˈstreɪ/
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘distant from the correct path’): from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French estraie, past participle of estraier, based on Latin extra ‘out of bounds’ + vagari ‘wander’.
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See astray in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo astray
- to become lost; to be stolen
- Several packages went astray or were not delivered.
- We locked up our valuables so they would not go astray.
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- to go in the wrong direction; to have the wrong result
- Unfortunately his header back to the goalie went astray.
- The argument is so complex, a reader might easily go astray.
lead somebody astray
- to make somebody go in the wrong direction or do things that are wrong
- Jack's parents thought the other boys might lead him astray.
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