Straying synonyms

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divaricate
To diverge at a wide angle; spread apart.
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stray
(Intransitive, figuratively) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
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aberrant
(Literally figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
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aberrational
Characterized by aberration. [Mid 19th century.]
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aberrative
Descriptive of an object or measurement that has deviated or been knocked, momentarily and sharply, from the more dominant, normal or expected course or trajectory to which it either has or is expected to return in the longer term.
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errant
The definition of errant is straying from the normal course or not following guidelines or standards.
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aberrance
State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. [Mid 17th century.]
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aberrancy
The condition of being aberrant; an aberrance. [Mid 17th cenntury.]
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aberration
(Zoology, botany) Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ. [Mid 19th century.]
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deviation
The difference between one number in a set and the mean of the set.
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divagation
Straying off from a course or way
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divergence
A becoming different in form or kind
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maverick
One who does not abide by rules.
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straggler
One who falls behind the rest.
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waif
(Law) A piece of property found but claimed by nobody
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deviate
(Intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
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digress
(Intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
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divagate
To stray from the subject; digress
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lag
To fail to keep up a pace; straggle:
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meander
To wander aimlessly or idly; ramble
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straggle
To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
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wandering
To behave in a manner that does not conform to morality or norms:
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divagating
To wander about
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digressing
(Intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
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drifting
(West) To range far afield in a drove, as in seeking pasture or escaping a storm
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ranging
To rove over or through.
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roving
(Intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
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rambling
To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course
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casting
(Nautical) To veer to leeward from a former course; fall off.
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roaming
To range or wander over.
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tramping
To traverse on foot:
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rolling
(Slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
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erring
(Obs.) To go astray; wander
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departing
Depart is defined as to go away or leave.
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veering
To deviate from a purpose, behavior, or previous pattern:
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swerving
To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
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diverging
(Mathematics) To fail to approach a limit.
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deviating
To deviate is to depart from a planned or accepted course, from expectations or from accepted behavior.
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straggling
To spread at irregular intervals.
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sinning
To commit a sin
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meandering
To be directed in various directions or at multiple objects:
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lagging
To cover with insulating material
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traipsing
(Intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
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gallivanting
(Intransitive) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
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gadding
To wander about in an idle or restless way, as in seeking amusement
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remaining (antonym)
To stay while others go
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staying (antonym)
To remain or sojourn as a guest or lodger:
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correcting (related)
To indicate or mark the errors in:
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approaching (related)
Approach means to move close to something.
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walking (related)
To cause to walk or proceed at a walk:
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turning (related)
To divert or deflect:
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moving (related)
To stir the emotions:
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Straying Sentence Examples

  • As a native of Hesse-Darmstadt he ought, according to the academical rules of the time, to have studied and graduated at the university of Giessen, and it was only through the influence of Humboldt that the authorities forgave him for straying to the foreign university of Erlangen.

  • Grass had already begun to grow on the garden paths, and horses and calves were straying in the English park.

  • His thoughts kept straying to a certain pink-haired woman whose scent on his skin was driving him crazy.

  • The ordinary pelican, the Onocrotalus of the ancients, to whom it was well known, and the Pelecanus onocrotalus of ornithologists, is a very abundant bird in some districts of south-eastern Europe, south-western Asia and north-eastern Africa, occasionally straying, it is believed, into the northern parts of Germany and France; but the possibility of such wanderers having escaped from confinement is always to be regarded,' since few zoological gardens are without examples.

  • This species occurs on the British coasts (very seldom straying inland) all the year round; but there is some reason to think that those we have in winter are natives of more northern latitudes, while our homebred birds leave us.

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