About The Word Err
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What's The Definition Of Err?
[v] to make a mistake or be incorrect
[v] wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" Synonyms | Synonyms for Err: drift | mistake | slip | stray Related Terms | Find terms related to Err: backslide | be in error | be mistaken | be wrong | blunder | bungle | commit sin | degenerate | deviate | divagate | do amiss | do wrong | drift | excurse | fall | fall into error | foozle | go adrift | go amiss | go astray | go awry | go wrong | goof | judge amiss | lapse | meander | misappreciate | misbelieve | miscalculate | miscompute | misconjecture | misconstrue | misdeem | misesteem | misestimate | misevaluate | misinterpret | misjudge | misreckon | miss | miss the mark | misthink | misvalue | offend | pererrate | ramble | rove | serve Mammon | sin | slip | slip up | snake | straggle | stray | stumble | transgress | trespass | trip | twist | twist and turn | wander | wind See Also | blunder | fall for | go | locomote | misjudge | misremember | move | slip up | stumble | travel | trip up Err In Webster's Dictionary \Err\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Erred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Erring}
(?; 277, 85).] [F. errer, L. errare; akin to G. irren, OHG.
irran, v. t., irr?n, v. i., OS. irrien, Sw. irra, Dan. irre,
Goth, a['i]rzjan to lead astray, airzise astray.]
1. To wander; to roam; to stray. [Archaic] ``Why wilt thou
err from me?'' --Keble.
What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an
hundred sheep and one of them hath erred. --Wyclif
(Matt. xviii.
12).
2. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed
at. ``My jealous aim might err.'' --Shak.
3. To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake
in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
The man may err in his judgment of circumstances.
--Tillotson.
4. To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a
figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
Do they not err that devise evil? --Prov. xiv.
22.
5. To offend, as by erring.
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