stray

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 the view from the pavement...

A railway line crosses the park so children must not be allowed to stray.

2) ADJ: ADJ n A stray dog or cat has wandered away from its owner's home.

A stray dog came up to him.

...a refuge for stray cats.

N-COUNT
Stray is also a noun.

The dog was a stray which had been adopted.

3) VERB If your mind or your eyes stray, you do not concentrate on or look at one particular subject, but start thinking about or looking at other things.

Even with the simplest cases I find my mind straying...

She could not keep her eyes from straying towards him.

Syn:
4) ADJ: ADJ n You use stray to describe something that exists separated from other similar things.

An 8-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet...

She shrugged a stray lock of hair out of her eyes.


English dictionary. 2008.

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