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[strey] 
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stray
[strey]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deviate, err |
| Synonyms: | circumlocute, depart, digress, divagate, diverge, do wrong, excurse, get off the subject, get off the track, get sidetracked, go off on a tangent, ramble, sin, wander |
| Antonyms: | remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | straying |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation |
| Synonyms: | aberrance, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, divagation, divergence, maverick, straggler, waif |
| Main Entry: | straying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deviating |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, aberrational, aberrative, errant, straying |
| Main Entry: | aberration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | different from that expected |
| Synonyms: | departure, deviation, difference, distortion, divergence, diversion, irregularity, lapse, straying, wandering |
| Antonyms: | conformity, sameness |
| Main Entry: | astray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off the path or right direction |
| Synonyms: | adrift, afield, amiss, awry, gone, lost, off, off course, off the mark, roaming, straying, vanished, wandering, wrong |
| Antonyms: | on course, right, straight |
| Main Entry: | depart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diverge from normal, expected |
| Synonyms: | abandon, cast, desert, deviate, differ, digress, disagree, discard, dissent, excurse, forsake, ramble, reject, repudiate, stray, swerve, turn aside, vary, veer, wander |
| Antonyms: | continue, keep to, linger, stay, wait |
| Main Entry: | departure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation from normal, expected |
| Synonyms: | aberration, branching off, branching out, change, declination, deflection, difference, digression, divergence, diversion, in thing, innovation, last word, latest thing, new wrinkle, novelty, rambling, shift, straying, turning, variance, variation, veering, wandering |
| Antonyms: | abidance, continuation, keeping, stay |
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked; indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bending, circuitous, confounding, confusing, curving, detouring, deviating, digressing, digressory, diverting, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuous, misleading, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, remote, removed, roundabout, serpentine, straying, tortuous, twisting, wandering |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | diverge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go in different directions |
| Synonyms: | bend, bifurcate, branch, branch off, depart, deviate, digress, divagate, divaricate, divide, excurse, fork, part, radiate, ramble, separate, split, spread, stray, swerve, veer, wander |
| Antonyms: | agree, converge, join, parallel |
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