stray

/streɪ/ verb [I]

Translation

MOVE AWAY › to move away from the place where you should be, without intending to

farkında olmadan uzaklaşmak; kaybolmak

I suddenly realized that I had strayed far from the village.1628

CHANGE THOUGHTS › to start thinking or talking about a different subject from the one you should be giving attention to

konudan sapmak/uzaklaşmak; zihni başka tarafa kaymak

We seem to have strayed from the original subject.1188

(Definition of stray verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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