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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

भ्रष्ट

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bhrasht

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Astray/əˈstreɪ/
adjectiveadverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"बुरी संगति ने उसे भटका दिया।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Away from the correct path or direction; wandering.

    "The hikers went astray in the dense fog."
As adverb
  1. 1

    Into error or morally questionable behavior.

    "Bad company led the young man astray."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'astrayen', from Old French 'estraier', based on the Vulgar Latin 'extravagare' (to wander outside). It combines the Latin prefix 'ex-' (out of, beyond) and 'vagari' (to wander), shifting in meaning over centuries from physically straying from a path to morally or mentally losing one's way.

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