EnglishMain Dictionary
astray
Universal Words
adverb
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.
