ASTRAY


Meaning of ASTRAY in English

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

go

The problem is sometimes that parts go astray , which makes it impossible to reassemble the file.

I started out to be a physicist, but I soon went astray , seduced by a fascination with the brain.

It could be that fewer of those bright ideas will go astray .

It used live bombs until two went astray in a 1999 practice and killed a civilian guard on the bombing range.

The transactions are secure, so the cash does not go astray or disappear; nor can it be forged easily.

To stop Tootle from going astray , the townspeople get together and conceive ofa clever plan, in which they all participate.

She knew the long list of silver almost by heart and counted it monthly that nothing might go astray .

Just where - and when, and how - had it begun to go astray ?

lead

She said that sensible people weren't led astray by infatuation.

In catering to the largest possible audience, producers and reporters are led astray from their social and civic responsibilities.

Instead he was led astray by the recollection of past triumphs.

We feel sympathy for the hero who is led astray under the influence of his false friend.

Frequently we tend to be led astray by the fanciful language of introspective psychology.

In my opinion Searle, and a great many other people, have been led astray by the computer people.

First, the episode shows how easy it is to be led astray by one's own rhetoric.

It is clear that we should not be led astray by glamorous starlets.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

lead sb astray

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But their recording finds them in less than top form, and Solti sometimes leads them astray .

Conversations with Maisie had a habit of going astray like this.

He says that when burning oak powder it's possible that a spark could have gone astray .

In catering to the largest possible audience, producers and reporters are led astray from their social and civic responsibilities.

She said that sensible people weren't led astray by infatuation.

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