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aberrate

American  
[ab-uh-rayt] / ˈæb əˌreɪt /

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

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

From Fox News

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.

From Salon

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

From Time

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.”

From New York Times

Some physical imperfections, more than others, give rise to mental derangements, and some persons, more than others, when affected by any bodily ailment, tend to aberrated conditions of the mind.

From Project Gutenberg