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Aberrate

//ˈæb.ə.ɹeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. intransitive

    "1765, Peter Dollond, letter to James Short dated 7 February, 1765, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55, […] the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis […]"

  2. 2
    diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration wordnet
  3. 3
    To distort; to cause aberration of. transitive

    "1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104, He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action."

  4. 4
    diverge from the expected wordnet

Etymology

From Latin aberrātus, perfect passive participle of aberrō (“wander, stray or deviate from”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”).

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