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/ streɪ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used without object) to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
to wander; roam: The new puppy strayed from room to room.
to go astray; deviate, as from a moral, religious, or philosophical course: to stray from the teachings of the church.
to digress or become distracted.
SEE MORE SEE LESS noun a domestic animal found wandering at large or without an owner.
any homeless or friendless person or animal.
a person or animal that strays: the strays of a flock.
strays, Radio . static.
SEE MORE SEE LESS adjective straying or having strayed, as a domestic animal.
found or occurring apart from others or as an isolated or casual instance; incidental or occasional.
Radio . undesired: stray capacitance.
SEE MORE SEE LESS Origin of stray 1250–1300; (v.) Middle English
strayen, aphetic variant of
astraien, estraien <Middle French
estraier <Vulgar Latin
*extrāvagāre to wander out of bounds (see extravagant); (noun) Middle English, in part derivative of the v., in part <Anglo-French
stray, Middle French
estrai, derivative of
estraier SYNONYMS FOR stray 1 rove, range.
2 meander.
3 err.
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OTHER WORDS FROM stray strayer, noun un·stray·ing, adjective Words nearby stray strawweight, straw wine, strawworm, strawy, straw yellow, stray , Strayhorn, strays, strayve, streak, streak culture
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Example sentences from the Web for stray She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face.
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On the weekends the birds and stray cats keep the artists company as they set up their displays.
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Three stray dogs saunter out of our way as we turn into a residential area lined with trailers and graffiti-sprayed stop signs.
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I don't see why some of them may not stray into our world sometimes.'
The Magic Nuts | Mrs. Molesworth
Strong in self-confidence, she had no fear that her mind could be influenced to stray from its proper path.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 | Various
But every moment lessened the danger from stray bullets, and the chance of the bayonet charge from behind.
The Bronze Eagle | Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
For you stand or stray in the futile building, while the cloud is no mansion for man, and out of reach of his limitations.
The Colour of Life | Alice Meynell
This is sometimes called a "stop-butt," its purpose being to secure the ground behind the targets from stray shots.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 | Various
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British Dictionary definitions for stray verb (intr) to wander away, as from the correct path or from a given area
to wander haphazardly
to digress from the point, lose concentration, etc
to deviate from certain moral standards
SEE MORE SEE LESS noun a domestic animal, fowl, etc, that has wandered away from its place of keeping and is lost (as modifier ) stray dogs a lost or homeless person, esp a child waifs and strays
an isolated or random occurrence, specimen, etc, that is out of place or outside the usual pattern
SEE MORE SEE LESS adjective scattered, random, or haphazard a stray bullet grazed his thigh
Derived forms of stray strayer , noun Word Origin for stray C14: from Old French estraier, from Vulgar Latin estragāre (unattested), from Latin extrā- outside + vagāri to roam; see astray , extravagant , stravaig
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