stray
/streɪ/ verb [I]Definition
MOVE AWAY › to move away from the place where you should be, without intending to: I suddenly realized that I had strayed far from the village.
CHANGE THOUGHTS › to start thinking or talking about a different subject from the one you should be giving attention to: We seem to have strayed from the original subject.
(Definition of stray verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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