astray en · ADV
Pronunciation
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- /əˈstɹeɪ/ (US)
Etymology
From Middle English astraien or by apheresis straien, from Old French estraier (“to stray”), from late Medieval Latin extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagārī (“to wander, stray”).
Meanings
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Away from the proper path; in a wrong or unknown direction.
Go, set the storm-winds free, / And sink their ships or scatter them astray, / And strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey.
1907, Virgil, “1.X”, in Edward Fairfax Taylor, transl., The Æneid of Virgil, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.:
- Away from what is right and good; into error or evil.
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Translations (31)
cmn 迷途地 (in a wrong direction) · ga ar seachrán (in a wrong direction) · nl op een dwaalspoor (in a wrong direction) · la errāns (in a wrong direction) · id tersesat (in a wrong direction) · es perdido (in a wrong direction) · ru сби́вшись с пути́ (in a wrong direction) · tr kötü/yanlış yola (in a wrong direction) · it traviato (in a wrong direction) · is villtur (in a wrong direction) · gd air iomrall (in a wrong direction) · ru заблуди́вшись (in a wrong direction) · cs na scestí (in a wrong direction) · ca desencaminadament (in a wrong direction) · it sviato (in a wrong direction) · chr ᎤᎴᎾᎯᏛ (in a wrong direction) · es extraviado (in a wrong direction) · la pālāns (in a wrong direction) · ja 道に迷って (in a wrong direction) · de in die Irre (in a wrong direction) · ar بِضَلَال (in a wrong direction) · sv på villovägar (in a wrong direction) · it fuori dalla retta via (in a wrong direction) · ar ضَالًّا (in a wrong direction) · fi harhaan (in a wrong direction) · sv vilse (in a wrong direction) · gd air seachran (in a wrong direction) · id tersasar (in a wrong direction) · it fuori strada (in a wrong direction) · ar عَلَى ضَلَال (in a wrong direction) · cs s cesty (in a wrong direction)