Verb
(intransitive) To develop bad habits; to behave improperly or illegally.
Synonyms: break bad, go bad
If you keep hanging out with that gang you'll go astray.
(intransitive) To behave in an adulterous manner.
The woman thought her husband had gone astray.
(intransitive) To come to believe an untruth.
(intransitive, of an object) To become lost or mislaid.
(intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To be undesirable or unhelpful.
A pinch of salt in this dish wouldn't go astray.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, astray.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgA human being may follow guidance or may allow himself to go astray: both possibilities are part of his nature. Source: Internet
It is incredible how the scientific mind which has no awakened observer as a supervisor, can go astray and build pseudoscience. Source: Internet
Just so we have no doubt either of intention or execution, a certain Abu Jamal, the sargana of a Tashkar outfit, is made to quaver after his wicked plans of blowing up humans appear to go astray: is it America, or Roosia, or the Mossad? Source: Internet
A shorter storyline could involve a permanent break that results after one person, the other, or both go astray. Source: Internet
I also step in when things go astray. Source: Internet
Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love, 1847, Hong p. 1995 p. 274 "If a person always keeps his soul sober and alert in this idea, he will never go astray in his outlook on life and people or "combine respect for status of persons with his faith." Source: Internet