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- 1. be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake: formal "the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible" Similar Opposite
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to make a mistake or to do something wrong: He erred in agreeing to her appointment to the position. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Making mistakes. balls (something) up. blunderingly. bodge. making. misdiagnose. misdiagnosis. misdirection. misremember. misrender. misstate. mistake. mistranscribe. stumblingly.
The meaning of ERR is to make a mistake. How to use err in a sentence. Is it human to err?
Err definition: to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.. See examples of ERR used in a sentence.
When you err, you make a mistake or do something wrong. When a newspaper reporter errs in a printed story, the paper often prints a correction the next day.
3 meanings: 1. to make a mistake; be incorrect 2. to stray from the right course or accepted standards; sin 3. to act with.... Click for more definitions.
Definition of err verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb ), from Proto-Indo-European *ares- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”).
ERR definition: to make a mistake or do something that is wrong. Learn more.
err meaning, definition, what is err: to make a mistake: Learn more.
1. to make a mistake; be incorrect. 2. to stray from the right course or accepted standards; sin. 3. to act with bias, esp favourable bias: to err on the side of justice. [C14: erren to wander, stray, from Old French errer, from Latin errāre]
