0 away from the correct path or correct way of doing something:
I was led astray by an out-of-date map.
Her parents worried that she might be led astray (= encouraged to behave badly) by her unsuitable friends.
There is considerable anxiety about education as they hold it responsible for women going astray even in the context of their own women.
However, even seemingly straightforward adjectives can lead one astray.
Consequently, privileging apparently theological issues will lead us astray.
It is this focus that perhaps led him astray on two accounts.
Using perceived similarities in order to determine cultural affiliation or the type and intensity of interactions may easily lead astray.
The implausibility of either of these answers should alert us to the fact that the argument has gone seriously astray at some point.
Why do we adults have to try so hard to be happy and so often go astray?
However, the structure building model runs astray in several areas.
