go astray
Verb
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Verb
go astray
- (intransitive) To develop bad habits; to behave improperly or illegally.
- Synonyms: break bad, go bad
- If you keep hanging out with that gang you'll go astray.
- (intransitive) To behave in an adulterous manner.
- The woman thought her husband had gone astray.
- (intransitive) To come to believe an untruth.
- (intransitive, of an object) To become lost or mislaid.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To be undesirable or unhelpful.
- A pinch of salt in this dish wouldn't go astray.
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see go, astray
- German: auf die schiefe Bahn geraten
- Russian: сбива́ться с пути́
- Russian: заблужда́ться
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