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astray

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/əˈstɹeɪ/ (US)

Definition of astray

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. 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.”
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adv

  1. 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.”
  2. Away from what is right and good; into error or evil.

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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”).

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