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err verb [ əː ]

• be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake.
• "the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible"
Similar: make a mistake, be wrong, be in error, be mistaken, mistake, make a blunder, blunder, be incorrect, be inaccurate, misjudge, miscalculate, get things/something/it wrong, bark up the wrong tree, get the wrong end of the stick, be wide of the mark, slip up, screw up, blow it, foul up, goof, fluff something, make a hash of something, put one's foot in it, make a boo-boo, drop a brick, boob, make a bloomer, bugger something up,
Opposite: be right,
Origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘wander, go astray’): from Old French errer, from Latin errare ‘to stray’.

err on the right side

• act so that the least harmful of possible mistakes or errors is the most likely to occur.
"last year's boom was the result of a miscalculation, which erred on the right side"

err on the side of

• display more rather than less of (a specified quality) in one's actions.
"it is better to err on the side of caution"

to err is human, to forgive divine

• it is human nature to make mistakes oneself while finding it hard to forgive others.



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