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What (who) is astray - definition
astray
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Astray (disambiguation)
1.
If you are led astray by someone or something, you behave badly or foolishly because of them.
The judge thought he'd been led astray by older children.
PHRASE: V inflects
2.
If someone or something leads you astray, they make you believe something which is not true, causing you to make a wrong decision.
We drove east to Rostock, where my map led me astray.
= mislead
PHRASE: V inflects
3.
If something goes astray, it gets lost while it is being taken or sent somewhere.
Many items of mail being sent to her have gone astray.
PHRASE: V inflects
astray
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Astray (disambiguation)
ad.
Out of the right way, wandering, in error, lost, at fault, on the wrong scent.
astray
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Astray (disambiguation)
¦ adverb away from the correct path or direction.
Phrases
go astray become lost or mislaid.
Origin
ME: from an Anglo-Norman Fr. var. of OFr. estraie, past participle of estraier, based on L. extra 'out of bounds' + vagari 'wander'.
Examples of use of astray
1. Those whom we have led astray, we only led them astray as we ourselves had gone astray.
2. The final note says: «Say: Were I to go astray, I would but go astray to the loss of myself.
3. Falsehood neither creates anything new, nor restores anything.» Say: «Were I to go astray, I would but go astray to the loss of myself.
4. But it was not experience that led the Bushies astray.
5. Who could guide those whom God has let go astray?