Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That has strayed or become lost: as, the wandered scolex of the dog's tapeworm.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wander .
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Examples
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It is an attack upon all churches, upon the pomp and splendor of all churches that have wandered from the Master's path and hedged themselves in from his lambs.
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The captain wandered about like a lost soul, nervously chewing his mustache, scowling, unable to make up his mind what to do.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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Avaaz was at least on message; the clean room suit-clad aliens with green skin wandered all over asking anyone and everyone if they were “climate leaders” and where real climate leaders could be found.
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Martin wandered on through the heavy pages, overwhelmed by the clews he was getting to the nature of things.
Chapter 11 2010
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His eyes wandered from the efficient hands to the bronze slippers and back again, and he swore to himself that there were mighty few stenographers like her in existence.
Chapter XVIII 2010
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He wandered from the seat to my lap to the driver side floor and all around.
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Great for us who have wandered from the natural and softened to sickly ripeness.
CHAPTER 13 2010
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His legacy is a testament of how far we have wandered from the constitutional vision of the framers.
The Volokh Conspiracy » James Ely on Stevens, Kagan, Obama, and Property Rights 2010
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Then I wandered from the fancies of others and formed affections and intimacies with the aerial creations of my own brain — but still clinging to reality I gave a name to these conceptions and nursed them in the hope of realization.
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Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
The Two Trees 2008
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