astrayadverb
uk/əˈstreɪ/us/əˈstreɪ/away from the correct path or correct way of doing something:
The letter must have gone astray in the post.
I was led astray by an out-of-date map.
Her parents worried that she might be led astray (= encouraged to behave badly) by her unsuitable friends.
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Losing and loss
- black hole
- disappear
- forfeit
- get to
- go walkabout idiom
- haemorrhage
- kiss
- lose
- loss
- lost
- mislay
- misplace
- miss
- say
- say goodbye to sth idiom
- slip through sb's fingers idiom
- stray
- walkabout
- wave
- wave/say goodbye to sth idiom
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Bad and wrong behaviour