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stray: 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"

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slip up collapse

misbelieve collapse: hold a false or unorthodox belief

causeless collapse: having no cause or apparent cause; "a causeless miracle"; "fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune"; "we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times"; having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless, causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change"

digress collapse: 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"

gad about collapse

inexplicable collapse: incapable of being explained or accounted for; "inexplicable errors"; "left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons"

miscalculate collapse: calculate incorrectly; "I miscalculated the number of guests at the wedding"; judge incorrectly; "I had misestimated his determination"

foundling collapse: a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown

hit the road collapse

street Arab collapse: a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets

mudlark collapse

landloper collapse

ragpicker collapse: an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood

ragamuffin collapse: a dirty shabbily clothed urchin

go wrong collapse

roam collapse

subnormal collapse: a person of less than normal intelligence; below normal or average; "after the floods the harvests were subnormal"; "subnormal intelligence"

excursive collapse

digressive collapse: (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"; of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"

purposeless collapse: not evidencing any purpose or goal

go astray collapse

ragman collapse

gallivant collapse: wander aimlessly in search of pleasure

Arab collapse: a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa

DC collapse

AC collapse

direct current collapse: an electric current that flows in one direction steadily

alternating current collapse: an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"

stochastic collapse: being or having a random variable; "a stochastic variable"; "stochastic processes"

knock about collapse

waif collapse: a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; "street children beg or steal in order to survive"

anomalous collapse: deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"

err collapse: to make a mistake or be incorrect

gamin collapse

mooch collapse: ask for and get free; be a parasite

electric current collapse

knock around collapse

rove collapse

circuitous collapse: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"

urchin collapse: poor and often mischievous city child

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