Digressing and being indirect or evasive (Definition of straying from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

The meaning of STRAY is a domestic animal that is wandering at large or is lost. How to use stray in a sentence.

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 …

1. Straying or having strayed; wandering or lost: stray cats and dogs. 2. Scattered or separate: a few stray crumbs.

Definition of stray verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

straying or having strayed: a stray cat. incidental: a few stray hairs. ramble: to stray from the main road. roam: The new puppy strayed from room to room. deviate, as from a moral, religious, or …

5 days ago · Definitions of straying adjective unable to find your way “found the straying sheep” synonyms: lost no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered

straying, adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

STRAY definition: to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose. See examples of stray used in a …

Both of her cats were strays that she found wandering in the neighborhood.