Err synonyms
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Part of speech:
To violate a religious or moral law.
To judge wrongly or unfairly
To utter (something) stupidly or thoughtlessly.
be mistaken
fail (related)
To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately:
To pass away; elapse
To calculate incorrectly; miscount or misjudge
misdo
To do wrongly or awkwardly; botch.
To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
(Sports) To miss (a catch) or bungle (a play)
To get loose or away from (a restraint, pursuer, etc.); become free of
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To walk or go in an unsteady or awkward manner, as from age, weakness, etc.
To turn aside or astray (from a path, course, etc.); lose one's way
To wrong is to act improperly towards someone or to improperly accuse someone of something bad.
be right (antonym)
do wrong
correct (antonym)
To make or put right:
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(Theater) To miss one's cue or answer the wrong cue
To make an error or mistake
To break a law, religious commandment, etc.; commit a sin or crime
To go away; leave:
To turn aside, especially to depart temporarily from the main subject in writing or speaking; stray.
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To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
To veer is to turn or swerve sharply or to go off course.
right (related)
Right means correctly, completely, thoroughly or exactly.
approach (related)
(Intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
misappreciate
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misvalue
To fail to value properly or adequately
misevaluate
in-that-case (related)
say-so (related)
disbelieve (related)
To spoil by clumsy work or action; botch
Find another word for err. In this page you can discover 41 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for err, like: sin, misjudge, blunder, be mistaken, fail, deviate, flub, goof, lapse, miscalculate and misdo.