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strayed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stray \Stray\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Strayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Straying.] [OF. estraier, estraer, to stray, or as adj., stray, fr. (assumed) L. stratarius roving the streets, fr. L. strata (sc. via) a paved road. See Street, and Stray, a.]
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To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
Thames among the wanton valleys strays.
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To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
Now, until the break of day, Through this house each fairy stray.
--Shak.A sheep doth very often stray.
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Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
We have erred and strayed from thy ways.
--??? of Com. Prayer.While meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
--Cowper.Syn: To deviate; err; swerve; rove; roam; wander.
Wiktionary
Who has lost his way. v
(en-past of: stray)
Wikipedia
Strayed is a 2003 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Emmanuelle Béart and Gaspard Ulliel. The plot follows a widowed mother, who escaping occupied Paris with her two young children during World War II, finds shelter with an itinerant teenager at an abandoned rural house. The film is an adaptation of Gilles Perrault's novel The Boy With Grey Eyes (Le Garçon aux yeux gris).
Strayed can refer to:
- Cheryl Strayed, American author who adopted the surname Strayed before events depicted in her book ''Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Strayed (2003 film), a 2003 French film directed by André Téchiné
- Strayed (2009 film), a 2009 Kazakhstani film directed by Akan Satayev
- Strayed (song), a 2000 song by the band Smog
Strayed is a 2009 Kazakhstani thriller directed by Akan Satayev. The film was selected as the Kazakhstani entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist.
Usage examples of "strayed".
In my view, Kaspar was, to put it mildly, an ambulatory automatist, who had strayed away, like the Rev.
We of the City of Oolb take our fashions from them of the City of Shagpat, and it is but yesterday that I bastinadoed a barber that strayed among us.
His musings even now strayed, as if beguiled, to alluring recollections of her sliding naked across his bed in her eagerness to make room for him.
She could not keep her mind on it for she had to rise often to head off outrunners of flame that strayed across the stubble of the field.
Her own heart had not strayed that way because she thought but little of herself, knowing herself to be portionless, and believing from long thought on the subject that it was not her destiny to the wife of any man.
And for all he may have strayed from the hidebound preachments of his forebears, Adams remained enough of a Puritan to believe anything worthy must carry a measure of pain.
It was entirely feasible that a missile aimed at, say, a missile silo in North Dakota might have strayed a few hundred miles and instead obliterated a grazing herd of pronghorn antelope in South Dakota.
Her eyes strayed to Steve Sheppard, and she blushed hotter than the ovenlike air around her.
The sun streamed in upon her, and some sheep which had strayed into the churchyard from the adjoining open field came almost close to her, unalarmed, and looked in her face.
As nature had made this organ neither green nor blue nor yellow, there was nothing to know it by: it strayed and bleated like an unbranded sheep.
As my feet strayed through the unpeopled country, my thoughts rambled through the universe, and I was least miserable when I could, absorbed in reverie, forget the passage of the hours.
IT HAD BEEN a little more than eight months since Adams arrived in Philadelphia in February, and except for the few days taken up with the expedition to meet with Lord Howe, he had never strayed out of the city.
It was inconceivable that the Alemanni could have strayed so far from their Rhone forests, for Autun was a good hundred miles from the previous limits of their invasions.
Combined with what Lester did to Zanzibar, the Manties have to be feeling as if they strayed in front of an out-of-control freight shuttle at the bottom of a gravity well.
The other two losses fell to the Flak batteries of Wilhelmshaven and Bremerhaven when the bombers concerned strayed and flew near those strongly defended cities.