Aberrate

Definitions: Aberrate

Aberrate

Verb

1. Diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman".

2. Diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration, as in optics; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Aberrate \Ab"er*rate\, intransitive verb. [Latin expression aberratus, present participle of aberrare; ab errare to wander. See Err.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Aberrate

Afrikaan

afwyk (deflect, deviate, diverge, turn, wander), afslaan (discount, rebate, reduce, reduce the price, reject, turn), afdwaal (go astray, stray, stray off), draai (turn). (various references)

Dutch

afwýken (deflect, deviate, diverge, turn, wander), afslaan (abase, abate, beat off, cease, come to a halt, decrease, discount, flame out, go down, halt, knock off, lower, rebate, reduce the price, reject, stall, stalling, stop, strike off, turn, turning), afdwalen (deviate, get off the subject, go astray, stray from one's subject, stray off, wander from one's subject), aberreren (deviate), verdwalen (go astray, lose one's way, stray off), van de weg afwýken (go astray, stray off), dwalen (err, go astray, make a mistake, roam, stray off, wander). (various references)

Faeroese

víkja frá (turn). (various references)

Finnish

poiketa (deviate, digress, diverge differ, turn, turn aside, turn off). (various references)

French

dévier. (various references)

Frisian

ôfwike (deflect, deviate, diverge, turn, wander), ôfslaan (abase, abate, decrease, discount, lower, rebate, reduce the price, reject, turn), ôfdwale (go astray, stray from one's subject, stray off, wander from one's subject). (various references)

German

abweichen (angle, be different, depart, deviate, differ, differ from, digress, diverge, drift, err, float, to deviate, to drift, turn, vary, wander). (various references)

Greek 

παρεκκλίνω (deflect, depart, deviate, shunt, sidetrack, swerve), εκτρέπομαι (deviate, digress, stray, swerve, take a deflection). (various references)

Hungarian

eltér (back away, deviate, differ, diverge, swerve, to angle, to be unlike sg, to deflect, to depart, to deviate, to go off, to go out of one's way, to turn off, to yaw, turn). (various references)

Icelandic

víkja (deviate). (various references)

Italian

aberrare, svoltare (corner, swerve, turn), smarrirsi (go astray, miscarry, stray, stray off), perdersi (disappear, go astray, stray, stray off). (various references)

Papiamen

desviá (turn). (various references)

Pig Latin

aberrateay.(various references)

Spanish

aberrar, extraviarse (err, get lost, go astray, go wrong, lose oneself, miscarry, straggle, stray, stray off, wander), desviarse (backslide, break, deflect, detour, deviate, diverge, sheer off, turn, turn aside, turn off, vary, wander), desviar (abduce, abduct, deflect, deviate, dissuade, divert, draw off, head off, look away, Parry, put off, switch off, to divert, turn around, turn aside, ward off). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "aberrate": aberrated. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rebater.

-2 letters: abater, aerate, barret, barter, bearer, beater, berate, errata, rebate, retear, tearer, terrae.

-3 letters: abate, areae, arete, barer, barre, beret, eater, rabat, rater, reata, rebar, taber, tarre, terra.

-4 letters: abet, area, bare, bate, bear, beat, beer, beet, beta, brae, brat, bree, rare, rate, rear, rete, tare, tear, tree.

-5 letters: aba, arb, are, art, ate, baa, bar, bat, bee, bet, bra, brr, ear, eat, era, ere, err, eta, rat, reb, ree, ret, tab, tae, tar, tea, tee.

+1 letter: aberrated.

+2 letters: breakwater, heartbreak, talebearer, threadbare.

+3 letters: brainteaser, breakfaster, breakwaters, halterbreak, heartbreaks, rebarbative, recalibrate, restartable, retractable, retrainable, sauerbraten, talebearers, trailerable, trainbearer, traversable, treasurable.

+4 letters: brainteasers, breakfasters, carpetbagger, correlatable, featherbrain, halterbreaks, heartbreaker, prebreakfast, prefabricate, recalibrated, recalibrates, rehydratable, restrainable, sauerbratens, skateboarder, subterranean, trailbreaker, trainbearers, transferable, weatherboard.

+5 letters: bureaucratese, bureaucratise, bureaucratize, carpetbaggers, carpetbaggery, embarrassment, featherbrains, heartbreakers, heartbreaking, intracerebral, overelaborate, prefabricated, prefabricates, quarterbacked, rattlebrained, rebarbatively, skateboarders, trailbreakers, transferrable, transmembrane, ultrareliable, weatherboards.

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