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   astray

   /əˈstreɪ/

   adverb

   • 1. away from the correct path or direction: "we went astray but a man redirected us" Similar off targetwide of the markwideawryoff courseoff trackoff the right trackadriftinformal:off beam
   • 2. into error or morally questionable behaviour: "he was led astray by boozy colleagues" Similar into wrongdoinginto errorinto sininto iniquityaway from the straight and narrowaway from the path of righteousnessinformal:off the rails

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘distant from the correct path’): from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French estraie, past participle of estraier, based on Latin extra ‘out of bounds’ + vagari ‘wander’.

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