Err /(ẽr)/

Err

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Erred; p. pr. & vb. n. Erring

  1. To wander; to roam; to stray. [Archaic]
    What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred.
    — Wyclif (Matt. xviii. 12).
  2. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.
  3. To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
    The man may err in his judgment of circumstances.
  4. To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
    Do they not err that devise evil?
    — Prov. xiv. 22.
  5. To offend, as by erring.