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English
Verb
go astray (third-person singular simple present goes astray, present participle going astray, simple past went astray, past participle gone astray)
- (intransitive) To develop bad habits; to behave improperly or illegally.
- Synonyms: break bad, go bad
If you keep hanging out with that gang you'll go astray.
- (intransitive) To behave in an adulterous manner.
The woman thought her husband had gone astray.
1980 August 9, James W. Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:I am a prisoner and all my so-called friends have gone astray on me. Could you please print this ad for me so I may hopefully reach society: I'm a lonely inmate who wishes to write someone and have a sincere relation.
- (intransitive) To come to believe an untruth.
- (intransitive, of an object) To become lost or mislaid.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To be undesirable or unhelpful.
A pinch of salt in this dish wouldn't go astray.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, astray.
Derived terms
Translations
develop bad habits; behave improperly or illegally
to behave in an adulterous manner
come to believe an untruth
of objects: to become lost or mislaid
to be undesirable or unhelpful
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