aberrate
(verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration; “The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens”
aberrate
(verb) diverge from the expected; “The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
aberrate (third-person singular simple present aberrates, present participle aberrating, simple past and past participle aberrated)
(intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. [mid 18th century]
(transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of. [late 19th century]
• The transitive sense is chiefly used in the past participle form (as aberrated).
Source: Wiktionary
Ab"er*rate, v.i. Etym: [L. aberratus, p.pr. of aberrare; ab + errare to wander. See Err.]
Definition: To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
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