stray from one's subject

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• stray — stray1 [streı] v [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: estraier, from [i]Vulgar Latin extragare, from Latin extra outside + vagari to wander ] 1.) to move away from the place you should be stray into/onto/from ▪ Three of the soldiers strayed… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• stray — 1 verb (I) 1 to leave the place where you should be without intending to: a warship that had strayed into enemy waters 2 to begin to deal with a different subject than the main one, without intending to: stray into/onto sth: We re straying into… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• stray — [[t]stre͟ɪ[/t]] strays, straying, strayed 1) VERB If someone strays somewhere, they wander away from where they are supposed to be. [V prep/adv] Tourists often get lost and stray into dangerous areas... [V prep/adv] Crews stray outside to film… …   English dictionary

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• di|va|gate — «DY vuh gayt», intransitive verb, gat|ed, gat|ing. to wander; stray from one place or subject to another. ╂[< Latin dīvagārī (with English ate1) < dis apart, in different directions + vagārī wander < vagus wandering] …   Useful english dictionary

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