Definitions for strays

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strays stray

Spelling: [strey]

IPA: /streɪ/

Strays is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in strays (arssty).

Definitions for strays

noun

1. a domestic animal found wandering at large or without an owner.
2. any homeless or friendless person or animal.
3. a person or animal that strays:
4. strays, Radio. static.

adjective

1. straying or having strayed, as a domestic animal.
2. found or occurring apart from others or as an isolated or casual instance; incidental or occasional.
3. Radio. undesired:

verb (used without object)

1. to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble:
2. to wander; roam:
3. to go astray; deviate, as from a moral, religious, or philosophical course:
4. to digress or become distracted.

Origin of strays

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English strayen, aphetic variant of astraien, estraien Middle French estraier Vulgar Latin *extrāvagāre to wander out of bounds (see extrava

Examples for strays

“These poor waifs and strays of humanity had a melancholy ending,” an 1874 New York Times article reads.

In Dude Lit, men confide in animals that are not deliberate pets, but wild animals and strays.

"It must have been a bunch of strays we saw—none of them was branded," Lambert said.

Hargus explained that the cattle were strays which had broken out.

But the ‘strays’ are ‘crooks,’ and their homes the penitentiary.

Waifs and strays from home, from up-country, from the Pacific.

This requires being open to what will actually accomplish this—even if it strays from existing dogma.

What became of all his waifs and strays, it might be well not to inquire too curiously.

Stray when he strays; stop when he stops; travel as slowly as he.

You know, Willy, I have an old weakness for a sheep that strays.