adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
go
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The problem is sometimes that parts go astray , which makes it impossible to reassemble the file.
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I started out to be a physicist, but I soon went astray , seduced by a fascination with the brain.
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It could be that fewer of those bright ideas will go astray .
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It used live bombs until two went astray in a 1999 practice and killed a civilian guard on the bombing range.
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The transactions are secure, so the cash does not go astray or disappear; nor can it be forged easily.
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To stop Tootle from going astray , the townspeople get together and conceive ofa clever plan, in which they all participate.
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She knew the long list of silver almost by heart and counted it monthly that nothing might go astray .
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Just where - and when, and how - had it begun to go astray ?
lead
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She said that sensible people weren't led astray by infatuation.
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In catering to the largest possible audience, producers and reporters are led astray from their social and civic responsibilities.
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Instead he was led astray by the recollection of past triumphs.
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We feel sympathy for the hero who is led astray under the influence of his false friend.
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Frequently we tend to be led astray by the fanciful language of introspective psychology.
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In my opinion Searle, and a great many other people, have been led astray by the computer people.
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First, the episode shows how easy it is to be led astray by one's own rhetoric.
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It is clear that we should not be led astray by glamorous starlets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lead sb astray
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But their recording finds them in less than top form, and Solti sometimes leads them astray .
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Conversations with Maisie had a habit of going astray like this.
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He says that when burning oak powder it's possible that a spark could have gone astray .
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In catering to the largest possible audience, producers and reporters are led astray from their social and civic responsibilities.
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She said that sensible people weren't led astray by infatuation.