Usually means: Deviate from the correct path.
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  1. go astray: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. go astray: Collins English Dictionary
  3. go astray: Wiktionary
  4. go astray: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. go astray: Legal dictionary

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  1. go astray: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (go astray)

verb:  (intransitive) To develop bad habits; to behave improperly or illegally.
verb:  (intransitive) To behave in an adulterous manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To come to believe an untruth.
verb:  (intransitive, of an object) To become lost or mislaid.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To be undesirable or unhelpful.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, astray.

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