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stray

 
/streɪ/ v [I] (MOVE AWAY)

Definition

to move away from a place where you should be or from a direction in which you should go: The children were told to stay together and not to stray. The plane disappeared after straying several hundred miles off course.
(Definition of stray v (MOVE AWAY) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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