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verb-intransitive. To move away from a group, deviate from the correct course, or go beyond established limits.

verb-intransitive. To become lost.

verb-intransitive. To wander about without a destination or purpose; roam. See Synonyms at wander.

verb-intransitive. To follow a winding course; meander.

verb-intransitive. To deviate from a moral, proper, or right course; err.

verb-intransitive. To become diverted from a subject or train of thought; digress. See Synonyms at swerve.

n. One that has strayed, especially a domestic animal wandering about.

adj. Straying or having strayed; wandering or lost: stray cats and dogs.

adj. Scattered or separate: a few stray crumbs.

n. Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.

n. The act of wandering or going astray.

n. An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "The Stray"

v. To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

v. To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.

v. Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

adj. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.

adj. In the wrong place; misplaced.

verb-intransitive. To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

verb-intransitive. To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.

verb-intransitive. Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

v. To cause to stray.

adj. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering.

n. Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.

n. The act of wandering or going astray.

To wander, as from a direct course; deviate or go out of the way or from the proper limits; go astray.

To wander from the path of truth, duty, or rectitude; turn from the accustomed or prescribed course; deviate.

To move about without or as without settled purpose or direction.

Synonyms To straggle.

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Wander, Rove, etc. See ramble, v.

To cause to stray; mislead; seduce.

Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; straggling; incidental.

n. Any domestic animal that has left an inclosure or its proper place and company, and wanders at large or is lost; an estray.

n. Hence A person or persons astray; a straggler; a truant.

n. The act of wandering.

n. A pasturage for cattle.

n. Property left behind by an alien at his death, and escheated to the king in default of heirs.

n. In wireless telegraphy, a disturbance due to fluctuating differences of potential between the top of the antennæ of a receiving station and the earth which sometimes affects the recording instrument and interferes with signaling. Also called an X.

v. wander from a direct course or at random

v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

v. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking

adj. not close together in time

n. an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)

adj. (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home

"Over the years, as we took in 'stray' boys, they learned this habit, too."

sporadic    lost   

strayed    straying    strays   

locomote    travel    move    go    tell    domesticated animal    domestic animal   

err    accidental    on the stray    right of stray   

astray    estray   

wander    roam    deviate    err    rove    swerve    strayed    wandering   

A    A.    Bay    Bombay    Bua    Ca    Cabernet    Calais    Cathay    Chevrolet   

tiny    occasional    golden    solitary    countless    precious    fiery    errant    dozen    invisible