astray
adverb
[ əˈstreɪ ]
• away from the correct path or direction.
• "we went astray but a man redirected us"
Similar:
off target,
wide of the mark,
wide,
awry,
off course,
off track,
off the right track,
adrift,
off beam,
• into error or morally questionable behaviour.
• "he was led astray by boozy colleagues"
Similar:
into wrongdoing,
into error,
into sin,
into iniquity,
off the rails,
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’.
go astray
• (of an object) become lost or mislaid.
• "the money had gone astray"
