aberrate

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aberrate

/ˈæb.ə.ɹeɪt/ US

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

verb aberrates · aberrating · aberrated

intransitive To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. 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 […]
transitive To distort; to cause aberration of. 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.

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verb to deviate from; to go astray

Português	aberrar
Français	aberrer
العربية	زَاغَ zāḡa, اِنْحَرَفَ inḥarafa, ضَلَّ ḍalla

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@misc{aberrate_2026,
  title = {aberrate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/aberrate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}