aberrate

[ab-uh-rayt]

verb (used without object)

1. to depart from the usual, proper, or correct course.

verb (used with object)

1. to make (someone or something) depart from the usual, proper, or correct course; cause an aberration.

Example Sentences

“Limited to four years, I believe history will look at the presidency as an aberrate moment in time.”

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Or, more likely, my ancestors were the ones cheating science by continuing to find ways to propagate the damaged, dysfunctional, mentally ill aberrated DNA that is my familial tree.

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I mean, it would appear that in his aberrated way that yes, it did.

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Freddie’s menacing oddness may result from those potions, from the war or from some other buried trouble that has left him, as Dodd puts it, “aberrated.”

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The women would be able to bring into effect several laws dealing with spaceflight, among them the one against stowaways, and especially that particular one about aberrated males sneaking into space and committing suicide.

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