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astray

/əˈstreɪ/
adverb
1 Away from the correct path or direction.
2 Into error or morally questionable behavior.

Origin
Middle English (in the sense ‘distant from the correct path’): from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French estraie, past participle of estraier, based on Latin extra ‘out of bounds’ + vagari ‘wander’.

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