figurative or in figurative context: Of persons (also of the mind, thoughts, desires, etc. personified): To turn aside from a purpose, from a…

To cease haltingly or hesitatingly from (a way or course); to fall away. Obsolete.

To depart, deviate, swerve from a custom, justice, law, etc. Obsolete.

intransitive. To go astray. Obsolete.

To go astray; to stray from (one's path or line of direction). Chiefly figurative and now archaic.

intransitive. To turn from a course of conduct, purpose, disposition, etc.; to turn aside. Obsolete.

To swerve or turn aside (from truth, etc.).

figurative. To wander or deviate in mind, purpose, etc. Said also of the mind or thoughts.

intransitive. To stagger, totter. Also figurative to decline away from.

intransitive. To give up or discontinue (a practice or habit); to withdraw from or renege on (a promise, undertaking, etc.). Obsolete.

intransitive. To depart or withdraw from some usual or natural state, a standard, a principle, etc.

intransitive (transferred and figurative from 6.) To withdraw, turn aside, diverge, deviate; to desist (from a course of action, etc.). to depart from…

intransitive. To turn away or be deflected from a (right) course of action, a line of conduct, an opinion, etc.; †to waver, vacillate.

intransitive. To decline in vigour or strength (literal and figurative); to tire or flag after exertion; (formerly also) †to droop (obsolete). Now…

intransitive. To give way, draw back, yield ground in a combat; to draw back or turn aside from a course of action, a duty or enterprise. In later…

intransitive. To deviate from the usual course; to stray.

intransitive. To wander away, stray, from, into. Also, †to extravagate it.

intransitive. To withdraw (from somewhere or something); to depart. Cf. coast, v. 8.

intransitive. To go out of the direct line; to deviate.

intransitive. To go astray; to deviate from a usual course or mode of behaviour. Also: to produce aberration.