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Word entry · 6 letters

astray

Best crossword clue

"Off the right path"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /əˈstɹeɪ/Part of speech adverbSorted aarstyStarts with AEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. away from the right path or direction

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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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