Word Meanings - ERR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

v. i., OS. irrien, Sw. irra, Dan. irre, Goth, aírzjan to lead astray, 1. To wander; to roam; to stray. "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 . 2. To

Additional info about word: ERR

v. i., OS. irrien, Sw. irra, Dan. irre, Goth, aírzjan to lead astray, 1. To wander; to roam; to stray. "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 . 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ERR)

• Deviate
• Digress
• wander
• swerve
• deflect
• err
• sway
• depart
• divaricate
• diverge
• Offend
• Displease
• affront
• outrage
• irritate
• shock
• annoy
• pain
• wound
• nettle
• vex
• fall
• Stray
• Wander
• deviate
• digress
• ramble
• go astray
• rove
• Trip
• Bound
• skip
• taunt
• fail
• stumble
• mistake
• offend
• Wider
• Ramble
• range
• stroll
• expatiate
• roam
• stray
• straggle
• saunter
• navigate
• circumnavigate
• travel

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ERR)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Course
• speed
• hasten
• drive
• run
• Disturb
• disconnect
• disorder
• derange
• intermit
• remain
• be stationary

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• SPECTACLE
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• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• SPERMATOCYTE
  See SPERMOBLAST
• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• SPERMATIC
  Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. Spermatic cord , the cord which suspends the testicle within the scrotum. It is made up of a connective tissue sheath inclosing the spermatic duct and accompanying
• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• SPERMATICAL
  Spermatic.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• SPECTROGRAPH
  An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. A photograph or picture of a spectrum. -- Spec`tro*graph"ic , a. --Spec`tro*graph"ic*al*ly , adv. --Spec*trog"ra*phy , n.
• SPECK
  The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• SPECE
  Species; kind. Chaucer.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• ENAVIGATE
  To sail away or over. Cockeram.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
  Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
• ASPER
  Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• DISPENSE
  1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• MISPENSE
  See HALL
• OOSPERM; OOESPERM
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• ORANGEADE
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