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stray
an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
domestic animal, domesticated animal
1. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment (Freq. 2)
- The gypsies roamed the woods
- roving vagabonds
- the wandering Jew
- The cattle roam across the prairie
- the laborers drift from one town to the next
- They rolled from town to town
• Syn:
roll, wander, swan, tramp, roam,
cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
• Derivationally related forms:
vagabond (for: vagabond), vagabondage (for: vagabond), drifter (for: drift), drifting (for: drift), roving (for: rove), ramble (for: ramble), rambler (for: ramble), roamer (for: roam), tramp (for: tramp), strayer, wanderer (for: wander), wandering (for: wander)
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
maunder, gallivant, gad, jazz around
• Verb Group:
err, drift, wander
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
2. wander from a direct course or at random (Freq. 1)
- The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her
- don't drift from the set course
• Syn:
err, drift
• Derivationally related forms:
driftage (for: drift), drift (for: drift), drifting (for: drift), errant (for: err), strayer
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Verb Group:
roll, wander, swan, tramp, roam,
cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
3. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- She always digresses when telling a story
- her mind wanders
- Don't digress when you give a lecture
• Syn:
digress, divagate, wander
• Derivationally related forms:
divagation (for: divagate), digressive (for: digress), digression (for: digress)
• Hypernyms:
tell
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
1. not close together in time (Freq. 2)
- isolated instances of rebellion
- a few stray crumbs
• Syn:
isolated
• Similar to:
sporadic
2. (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home
- a stray calf
- a stray dog
• Similar to:
lost
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