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lead astray |
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lead someone astray Related vocabulary: go astray1. to influence someone so that they do bad things. Parents always worry about their children being led astray by unsuitable friends. 2. to cause someone to make a mistake. The police were led astray by false information from one of the witnesses. lead someone astray 1. to influence someone in a negative way. Parents always worry that certain friends will lead their children astray. 2. to cause someone to make a mistake. The police were led astray by some false information. |
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Did she tell you about a boy, the son of pious and rich parents, whom she tried to lead astray into the wildness of thoughts like her own, till the poor dear child drove her off because she outraged his modesty? It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit with virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been lead astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. |
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