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stray

English

  1. 🔊 (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home
    “a stray calf”
  2. 🔊 not close together in time
    “isolated instances of rebellion”
  3. 🔊 an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)
  4. 🔊 wander from a direct course or at random
    “The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her”
  5. 🔊 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”
  6. 🔊 move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
    “The gypsies roamed the woods”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 errante stray
  2. 🔊 vagabundo stray
  3. 🔊 marrar to stray

Similar words

digress divagate wander roll wander swan tramp roam cast ramble rove range drift vagabond err drift isolated arab abandoned aberrant aberrative abnormal accidental aimless