0 present participle of stray --
1 to travel along a route that was not originally intended, or to move outside a limited area: --
I am perhaps straying wide of the present amendment and touching upon one we are about to discuss.
Both of us were called to order because we were straying wide of the subject of the debate.
The purpose of the exclusion zone was to prevent aircraft and ships from straying into a possible danger area.
Blainey (1982: 184-5) adds problems of straying stock and new technology of iron and steel wire in his explanation of the start of fencing.
A 'close' represented the spatial extent of property; a trespass (literally a transgression) could be perpetrated by animals straying across an imaginary line and entering the close.
Klein is occasionally less surefooted when straying outside the strict confines of his subject.
Heaven, relieve the anguish of one who is poised between infamy and death; take pity, illuminate the gates of salvation to my straying foot.
We are straying into the shadowy area of musical and verbal identity, and the kinds of patterns of recognition that begin to enable us to construct such identities.
