Synonyms for err
ɜr, ɛrerr

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1. err

   To wander (Anglo-Saxon windan, wind) is to move in an indefinite or indeterminate way which may or may not be a departure from a prescribed way; to deviate (Latin de, from, and via, a way) is to turn from a prescribed or right way, physically, mentally, or morally, usually in an unfavorable sense; to diverge (Latin di, apart, and vergo, incline, tend) is to turn from a course previously followed or that something else follows, and has no unfavorable implication; to digress (Latin di, apart, aside, and gradior, step) is used only with reference to speaking or writing; to err is used of intellectual or moral action, and of the moral with primary reference to the intellectual, an error being viewed as in some degree due to ignorance. Range, roam, and rove imply the traversing of considerable, often of vast, distances of land or sea; range commonly implies a purpose; as, cattle range for food; a hunting-dog ranges a field for game. Roam and rove are often purposeless, and always without definite aim. To swerve or veer is to turn suddenly from a prescribed or previous course, and often but momentarily; veer is more capricious and repetitious; the horse swerves at the flash of a sword; the wind veers; the ship veers with the wind. To stray is to go in a somewhat purposeless way aside from the regular path or usual limits or abode, usually with unfavorable implication; cattle stray from their pastures; an author strays from his subject; one strays from the path of virtue. Stray is in most uses a lighter word than wander. Ramble, in its literal use, is always a word of pleasant suggestion, but in its figurative use always somewhat contemptuous; as, rambling talk.

   Synonyms:
   deviate, digress, diverge, go astray, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swerve, veer, wander

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1. err

   Synonyms:
   deviate, wander, mistake, blunder, misjudge, stumble, stray, go astray, misapprehend

   Antonyms:
   succeed, prosper, correct, rectify

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1. err, mistake, slipverb

   to make a mistake or be incorrect

   Synonyms:
   slide, steal, misidentify, sneak, slew, stray, slue, skid, slip one's mind, drop away, drift, slip, dislocate, splay, luxate, drop off, fall away, mistake

2. stray, err, driftverb

   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:
   ramble, rove, range, stray, divagate, cast, roam, be adrift, swan, roll, digress, drift, wander, slip, freewheel, blow, tramp, mistake, vagabond, float

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1. • Travel

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1. errverb

   Synonyms:
   deviate (from the right way), wander, ramble, rove

2. errverb

   Synonyms:
   mistake, blunder, misjudge, make a mistake, be at fault, labor under a mistake

3. errverb

   Synonyms:
   sin, lapse, fall, trip, trespass, offend, go astray, do amiss, commit a fault

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1. errverb

   Synonyms:
   misjudge, mistake, blunder, deviate, sin

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1. List of paraphrases for "err":

   fela, mro, misdirect, rra, uh, error

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How to use err in a sentence?

1. Dick Durbin:

   The FDA is supposed to protect all Americans, and particularly our children. I'm calling on FDA to finally come to its senses. Err on the side of public safety, on the side of kids, not tobacco companies. This free fall in the legal department at the FDA is unimaginable. It's not safe for America. And it's not safe for our future.

2. MIT Assasination Club slogan:

   To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy

3. Victor Hugo:

   To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

4. Joseph Capone:

   It is a disappointment, but we always err on the side of safety for the reenactors and the public -- and for maintaining the equipment for future years.

5. Franklin P. Adams:

   To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.