Crossword-Solution: STRAY 5 letters, 250 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Stray	a.	To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
Stray	a.	To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
Stray	a.	Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
Stray	v. t.	To cause to stray.
Stray	v. i.	Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.
Stray	n.	Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.
Stray	n.	The act of wandering or going astray.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STRAY	anagram	ARTSY, ARTYS, SATYR, STARY, TRAYS, TRYAS, TYRAS

We have 250 clues for the answer “STRAY”

Clue	Answers
"___ Cat Strut" (1983 hit)	1 answer
Abandoned pet	1 answer
Adoptee, at times	1 answer
Alley cat, e.g.	1 answer
Alley cat, for example	1 answer
Alley cat, for one.	1 answer
Alley cat, perhaps	1 answer
Animal shelter animal	1 answer
Animal shelter arrival	1 answer
Animal that may become a rescue pet	1 answer
Back-alley cat, e.g.	1 answer
Be in error.	1 answer
Be unfaithful	1 answer
Cat in need of a home, maybe	1 answer
Cattle drive concern	1 answer
Cowpuncher's worry	1 answer
Depart from a predetermined path	1 answer
Dog found in the pound	1 answer
Dog pound dog	1 answer
Dogcatcher's pickup	1 answer
Dogcatcher's quarry, at times	1 answer
Don't go where one should	1 answer
Fail to concentrate	1 answer
Get off the beaten path	1 answer
Get off the moral track	1 answer
Get off topic	1 answer
Go afield	1 answer
Go away from the fold	1 answer
Go off the map	1 answer
Go off the path	1 answer
Go off the trail	1 answer
Good candidate for adoption	1 answer
Homeless animal	1 answer
Homeless cat	1 answer
Homeless creature.	1 answer
Homeless dog	1 answer
Homeless dog or cat	1 answer
It may be impounded	1 answer
It's weighed by the pound	1 answer
Lab at large, perhaps	1 answer
Leave the beaten path	1 answer
Leave the herd	1 answer
Leave the pack	1 answer
Leave the trail	1 answer
Like many adopted puppies	1 answer
Like the neighborhood cat, perhaps	1 answer
Lonely puppy	1 answer
Lose the plot	1 answer
Lose the plot a little	1 answer
Lose the thread	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETRAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with STRAY (5)

But the Field To labour calls us now with sweat impos’d, Though after sleepless Night; for see the Morn, All unconcern’d with our unrest, begins Her rosie progress smiling; let us forth, I never from thy side henceforth to stray, Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind Laborious, till day droop; while here we dwell, What can be toilsom in these pleasant Walkes? Here let us live, though in fall’n state, content.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

From time to time he rose and wandered about the house, picking up stray volumes and bringing them listlessly back to his box.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

The young woman came regularly to milk the healthy cow or to attend to the sick one, but never allowed her vision to stray in the direction of Oak’s person.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

After getting this sudden lesson in the power of terrestrial weapons, the Martians retreated to their original position upon Horsell Common; and in their haste, and encumbered with the debris of their smashed companion, they no doubt overlooked many such a stray and negligible victim as myself.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

NAL has also experimented with partial editing of text, whereby project workers go into and clean up the format, removing stray characters but not running a spell-check.

LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Quotes with STRAY (3)

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'…

Kamila Shamsie Kartography

Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday…

Warren Ellis Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City

Little sister don't you worry about a thing today Take the heat from the sun Little sister I know that everything is not ok But you're like honey on my tongue True love never can be rent But only true love can keep beauty innocent I could never take a chance Of losing love to find romance In the mysterious distance Between a man and a woman No I could never take a chance'Cause I could never understand The mysterious distance Between a man and a woman You can run from love And…

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Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 287 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).