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Astray vs Falter - What's the difference?

astray | falter |

As an adverb astray

is in a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.

As a noun falter is

unsteadiness.

As a verb falter is

to waver or be unsteady.

astray

English

Adverb

  • In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
  • Derived terms

    * lead astray

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    falter

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • unsteadiness.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To waver or be unsteady.
  • * Wiseman
  • He found his legs falter .
  • (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
  • * Byron
  • And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
  • * Milton
  • With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
  • To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
  • * I. Taylor
  • Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .
  • To stumble.
  • (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
  • *
  • And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .
  • To hesitate in purpose or action.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
  • To cleanse or sift, as barley.
  • (Halliwell)

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