IDIOMS
go astray
1 to become lost; to be stolen:
Several letters went astray or were not delivered. * We locked up our valuables so they would not go astray.
2 to go in the wrong direction or to have the wrong result:
Fortunately the gunman's shots went astray. * Jack's parents thought the other boys might lead him astray (= make him do things that are wrong). * The argument is so complex, a reader might easily go astray.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for astray is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is astray a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, astray is tagged as adverb.
Does astray appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — astray appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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