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单词 straying
释义
Straying
vverb.motionmove about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Synset:cast drift ramble range roam roll rove stray swan tramp vagabond wander
Examples:
  • The gypsies roamed the woods
  • roving vagabonds
  • the wandering Jew
  • The cattle roam across the prairie
  • the laborers drift from one town to the next
  • They rolled from town to town
Derivationally Related Form:wanderervagabondstrayervagabondageroamerramblerrovingstrayrambledriftertrampdriftingwandering
Hypernyms:go locomote move travel
Inherited Hypernyms:rolltravel
Direct Hyponyms:gadgallivantjazz aroundmaunder
Full Troponyms:gallivantmaunder
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s | Something is ---ing PP | Somebody ---s PP | They --- the countryside (apply to: ramble, wander, rove, roam) | They --- in the countryside (apply to: ramble, wander, rove, roam)
vverb.motionwander from a direct course or at random
Synset:drift err stray
Examples:
  • The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her
  • don't drift from the set course
Derivationally Related Form:strayerdriftagedriftdriftingerrant
Hypernyms:go locomote move travel
Inherited Hypernyms:straytravel
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s PP
vverb.communicationlose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
Synset:digress divagate stray wander
Examples:
  • She always digresses when telling a story
  • her mind wanders
  • Don't digress when you give a lecture
Derivationally Related Form:divagationdigressivedigression
Hypernyms:tell
Inherited Hypernyms:digresstellinformcommunicateinteractact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Somebody ---s PP
adj satadj.allunable to find your way
Examples:
  • found the straying sheep
Antonyms:found
Inherited Hypernyms:straying
Similar to:lost
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