slide off vs stray

slide off

verb
  • To leave a place, a meeting, etc., without being noticed; to slip away, slip off. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slide, off. 

stray

verb
  • To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. 

  • To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray. 

  • To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err. 

  • To cause to stray; lead astray. 

noun
  • An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally. 

  • Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray. 

  • An instance of atmospheric interference. 

  • One who is lost, literally or figuratively. 

  • An act of wandering off or going astray. 

adj
  • Having gone astray; strayed; wandering 

  • In the wrong place; misplaced. 

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