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misjudge
To judge wrongly or unfairly
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  1. To judge wrongly or unfairly
  2. To be wrong in judging.
  3. To make an error in judging, to incorrectly assess.
blunder
To do clumsily or poorly; bungle
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  1. To do clumsily or poorly; bungle
  2. To say stupidly, clumsily, or confusedly; blurt
  3. To move clumsily or carelessly; flounder; stumble
miscue
To mishit, strike incorrectly.
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  1. To mishit, strike incorrectly.
  2. (Theater) To miss one's cue or answer the wrong cue
  3. (Theater) To give an incorrect cue.
mistake
To understand or perceive wrongly; interpret or judge incorrectly
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  1. To understand or perceive wrongly; interpret or judge incorrectly
  2. (Intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
  3. To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
slip
To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
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  1. To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
  2. To go, move, pass, etc. smoothly, quickly, or easily
  3. To put on or remove (clothing) easily or quickly:
stumble
To miss one's step in walking or running; trip and almost fall.
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  1. To miss one's step in walking or running; trip and almost fall.
  2. To speak, act, or proceed in a confused, blundering manner
  3. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.
trip up
(Intransitive) To commit an error, make a mistake.
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  1. (Intransitive) To commit an error, make a mistake.
  2. (Intransitive) To fall or stumble.
  3. To cause (someone) to commit an error, trick into a mistake.
offend
To be displeasing to (the taste, sense, etc.)
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  1. To be displeasing to (the taste, sense, etc.)
  2. To cause to sin
  3. To break a law, religious commandment, etc.; commit a sin or crime
sin
Abbreviation of sine
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  1. Abbreviation of sine
  2. To violate a religious or moral law.
  3. To commit a sin
transgress
To go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.)
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  1. To go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.)
  2. To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.
  3. To break a law or commandment; sin
trespass
An illegal act committed against another’s person or property; especially entering upon another’s land without the owner’s permission. An illegal act committed against another’s person or property; especially entering upon another’s land without the owner’s permission. In common law, a legal suit for injuries resulting from an instance of the first definition. To enter upon property without permission, either actual or constructive.
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  1. An illegal act committed against another’s person or property; especially entering upon another’s land without the owner’s permission. An illegal act committed against another’s person or property; especially entering upon another’s land without the owner’s permission. In common law, a legal suit for injuries resulting from an instance of the first definition. To enter upon property without permission, either actual or constructive.
  2. (Intransitive, now rare) To commit an offence; to sin.
  3. To commit an offense or a sin; transgress or err.
depart
To set out; start
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  1. To set out; start
  2. To vary, as from a regular course; deviate:
  3. To go away; leave:
deviate
To depart, as from a norm, purpose, or subject; differ or stray.
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  1. To depart, as from a norm, purpose, or subject; differ or stray.
  2. To cause to turn aside or differ.
  3. To turn aside (from a course, direction, standard, doctrine, etc.); diverge; digress
digress
To turn aside, especially to depart temporarily from the main subject in writing or speaking; stray.
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  1. To turn aside, especially to depart temporarily from the main subject in writing or speaking; stray.
diverge
To depart from a given viewpoint, practice, etc.; differ
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  1. To depart from a given viewpoint, practice, etc.; differ
  2. To cause (light rays, for example) to diverge; deflect.
  3. To go or move in different directions from a common point or from each other; branch off
stray
To go wrong; be in error; deviate (from what is right)
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  1. To go wrong; be in error; deviate (from what is right)
  2. To become diverted, as from a subject or train of thought:
  3. To move away from a group, deviate from a course, or escape from established limits:
swerve
To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
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  1. To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
  2. To turn aside or cause to turn aside sharply or suddenly from a straight line, course, etc.
  3. To stray; to wander; to rove.
veer
To change sides; shift, as from one opinion or attitude to another
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  1. To change sides; shift, as from one opinion or attitude to another
  2. To turn
  3. (Nautical) To change the course of a ship by turning the stern to the wind while advancing to windward; wear ship.
Find another word for err. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for err, like: misjudge, blunder, be mistaken, fail, miscue, mistake, slip, slip-up, stumble, trip up and offend.

Sentence Examples

  • Men always did and always will err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

  • The substance of the claim to infallibility made by the Roman Catholic Church is that the Church and the pope cannot err when solemnly enunciating, as binding on all the faithful, a decision on a question of faith or morals.

  • RR': C(NO) NO 2 - ERR': C(NH OH) 2 - > RR': C: N 0H+NH20H.

  • In the third, the materials are worked up after the model or pattern of nature, though we are prone to err in the progress from sense to reason; the result is philosophy, which is concerned either with God, with nature or with man, the second being the most important.

  • The medieval mind was only too prone to look on morality as a highly technical art, quite as difficult as medicine or chancery law - a path where wayfaring men were certain to err, with no guide but their unsophisticated conscience.

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