Lead Astray

Definition: Lead Astray

Lead Astray

Verb

1. Teach immoral behavior to; "It was common practice to lead off the young ones, and teach 'em bad habits.".

2. Lead someone in the wrong direction.

3. Cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house".

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

Synonyms: Lead Astray

Error

Cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile, misinform; (misteach); delude; give a false impression, give a false idea; falsify, misstate; deceive; lie.

Crosswords: Lead Astray

Expression using "lead astray": To lead astray. Additional references.

Albanian

largoj nga udha e drejtë (misguide, mislead). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضل (astray, err, maunder, mislead, pervert, petering, seduce, stray). (various references)

Finnish

johtaa harhateille, johtaa harhaan (mislead). (various references)

German

verleiten (deceive, entice, inveigle, misguide, mislead, seduce, tempt, to deceive, to inveigle, to misguide), verführen (corrupt, debauch, ensnare, entice, inveigle, seduce, tempt, to debauch, to ensnare, to inveigle, to seduce), irreführen (mislead, misled). (various references)

Greek 

αποπλανώ (mislead, seduce, sophisticate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתעתע (deceive, deride, mock, swindle), ל�"תעות, ל�"וליך שולל (hoodwnk, misguide, mislead, trick), ל�"כשיל (cause failure, flunk, impede, make err, stump, thwart, trip, trip up), ל�"�"יח (banish, dismiss, expel). (various references)

Hungarian

tévútra visz (to lead astray). (various references)

Italian

traviare (go astray, mislead), sviare (deviate, distract, divert, go astray, mislead, misrepresent, sidetrack, swerve, turn, turn aside). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

欺き惑わす (to deceive and lead astray). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まどわせる (to lead astray), あくのみちへいざなう (to lead astray, to lure a person to evil ways), あざむきまどわす (to deceive and lead astray). (various references)

Maya

ka'a-xikin-thant (to lead astray). (various references)

Pig Latin

eadlay astrayay

Romanian

induce în eroare (deceive, delude, misguide, misinform, mislead, mystify), duce pe un drum greşit. (various references)

Russian 

сбивать с пути истинного. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavesti (debauch, institute, mislead, seduce). (various references)

Spanish

llevar por mal camino (mislead), extraviar (embezzle, lose, misdirect, mislay, mislead, misplace). (various references)

Swedish

vilseleda (deceive, delude, misguide, misinform, mislead), missleda (misdirect, mislead). (various references)

Thai

พาไปผิ�"ทาง, ถูกชักนำไปใช้ในทางที่ผิ�". (various references)

Turkish

bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), baştan çıkarmak (allure, corrupt, debauch, deprave, entice, entice away, inveigle, misguide, pervert, seduce, tempt, wile), azdırmak (drive smb. wild, exacerbate, excite, irritate), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile). (various references)

Ukrainian

ввести в оману, збити з дороги. (various references)

inplanavit, seducam, seducamini, seducat, seducebat, seducendos, seducens, seducent, seducentes, seducere, seduceris, seducet, seduci, seducit, seducta, seducti, seductione, seductionem, seductiones, seductus, seducunt, seduxerit, seduxerunt, seduxisti, seduxit. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: already, astylar, daresay, dartles, daystar, laterad, lyrated, strayed.

-4 letters: alated, alates, alders, alerts, altars, alters, artels, astral, astray, dartle, datary, daters, dearly, delays, deltas, derats, derays, desalt, dryest, elytra, estral, estray, laders, lasted, laster, layers, lyrate, lysate, ratals, ratels, realty, reatas, relays, salary, salted, salter, satara, slated, slater, slatey, slayed, slayer, staled.