Aberrate

Quick meaning: Aberrate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of.

Example Sentences

[…] after all the Governor of a Southern state has got to try to act like he regrets having to aberrate from being a gentleman—

He and Phœbe had had a senseless quarrel […] and she had left. It was an aberrated fulfillment of her old jesting threat that if he did not behave himself she would leave him.

Such, indeed, were the primitive regulations of the greater number of monastic institutions; but the abominable and luxurious indulgences into which they afterwards aberrated, the page of history amply unfolds.

Don’t imagine that there was any sudden and complete renunciation such as overcomes the luckless and often temporarily aberrated victim of a highly emotionalized revival meeting; this would have been, at best, but temporary.

Word Forms

• aberrates
• aberrating
• aberrated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aberr, deviate, warp, prevaricate, stray, depart.

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