What is another word for stray?
1432 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ stɹˈe͡ɪ], [ stɹˈeɪ], [ s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ]
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Similar words for stray:
- abandoned, wandering (adjective)
- aimless (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- errant (adjective)
- erratic (adjective)
- infrequent (adjective)
- off-center (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- random (adjective)
- vagabond (adjective)
- alley cat (noun)
- animal (noun)
- cast (noun)
- dog (noun)
- fugitive (noun)
- isolated (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- waif (noun)
- wanderer (noun)
- apostatize (verb)
- depart (verb)
- deviate (verb)
- deviate, err (verb)
- diverge (verb)
- drift (verb)
- err (verb)
- gad (verb)
- lose (verb)
- meander (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- ramble (verb)
- range (verb)
- roam (verb)
- roll (verb)
- sin (verb)
- swerve (verb)
- other synonyms
- apostatize
- depart
- diverge
- err
- lose
- other relevant words
- roll
- wander
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Stray:
adj.
• abandoned, wandering (adjective) • aimless (adjective)- more directionless,
- most objectless,
- in-discriminate,
- most bits-and-pieces,
- un-predictable,
- more vagrant,
- in discriminate,
- most goalless,
- un-directed,
- un directed,
- more bits and pieces,
- more drifting,
- more unguided,
- un planned,
- more undirected,
- more objectless,
- most bits and pieces,
- un-planned,
- more goalless,
- un availing,
- un-availing,
- most drifting,
- most directionless,
- most vagrant,
- fits starts,
- un-guided,
- most undirected,
- in-decisive,
- in decisive,
- more bits-and-pieces,
- un guided,
- most unguided,
- un predictable.
- more vagarious,
- more oddball,
- more fluctuant,
- un usual,
- in consistent,
- in-calculable,
- most fluctuant,
- un-stabler,
- in constant,
- in calculable,
- un stable,
- un-stablest,
- in-constant,
- most vagarious,
- in-consistent,
- un-usual,
- un-stable,
- un stabler,
- un stablest,
- un-natural.
- peripatetic,
- undirected,
- flighty,
- itinerate,
- unaimed,
- goalless,
- deviate,
- rootless,
- bits and pieces,
- Fluctuant,
- iffy,
- wayward,
- erratic,
- Vagarious,
- errant,
- directionless,
- infrequent,
- down and out,
- perambulant,
- Driftless,
- perambulatory,
- random,
- off-center,
- Designless,
- aimless,
- bits-and-pieces,
- unguided,
- drifting,
- avoid,
- mercurial,
- Objectless,
- vagabond,
- fits and starts.
- most designless,
- more unaimed,
- more designless,
- un-premeditated,
- de signless,
- un-aimed,
- un aimed,
- spoter,
- de-signless,
- most unaimed,
- most driftless,
- spotest,
- un-considered,
- un considered,
- more driftless.
- more itinerate,
- more mendicant,
- more straggling,
- most straggling,
- more travelling,
- most mendicant,
- un-settled,
- most perambulatory,
- most perambulant,
- more rootless,
- more perambulant,
- more journeying,
- more sauntering,
- fancyfree,
- most journeying,
- most strolling,
- most sauntering,
- most itinerate,
- un settled,
- most rootless,
- more perambulatory,
- more strolling,
- most travelling,
- fancy free.
n.
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- in absentia,
- absent,
- away,
- misplaced,
- unavailable,
- lacking,
- unattainable,
- lost,
- gone,
- missing.
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- cherub,
- approach,
- adolescent,
- child prodigy,
- imp,
- child,
- girl,
- issue,
- correct,
- boomerang kid,
- bairn,
- boy.
- vertebrate,
- invertebrate,
- critter,
- Vertebrates,
- living things,
- Invertebrates,
- critters,
- wild thing,
- varmints,
- wild things,
- living thing,
- varmint.
- cast.
- PUPS,
- pooch,
- FIDI,
- Bowwow,
- pup,
- Fido,
- doggies,
- doggy,
- man's best friend,
- pooches,
- flea bag,
- Puppies,
- tail-wagger.
v.
• apostatize (verb) • depart (verb)- ex-cursed,
- dis-sents,
- de parts,
- dis-carded,
- dis card,
- dis agrees,
- de part,
- excursed,
- de-sert,
- ex-curses,
- excursing,
- dis cards,
- ex cursed,
- de-parts,
- dis-agreed,
- de parting,
- dis-agree,
- de sert,
- ex-curse,
- dis sent,
- dis-agreeing,
- dis-cards,
- dis-card,
- dis carding,
- de-parted,
- dis agreed,
- dis agree,
- ex curses,
- de parted,
- ex curse,
- dis agreeing,
- turns aside,
- ex-cursing,
- dis carded,
- dis-agrees,
- ex cursing,
- dis sents,
- de-parting,
- de-part,
- dis-sent,
- dis-carding.
- bi-furcates,
- dis-approve,
- bi furcating,
- dis approved,
- bi-furcate,
- dis-approving,
- bi furcate,
- dis approving,
- dis-approves,
- bi furcates,
- bi-furcating,
- divaricates,
- dis approve,
- dis-approved,
- bi-furcated,
- bi furcated,
- dis approves.
- art carried along,
- go that a way,
- go-that-a-wayed,
- wast carried along,
- go-that-a-ways,
- going with the tide,
- wert carried along,
- is carried along,
- going with tide,
- go that a ways,
- go that a wayed,
- being carried along,
- go with tide,
- are carried along,
- goes with tide,
- went with the tide,
- was carried along,
- goes with the tide,
- were carried along,
- kicks around,
- go that a waying,
- go-that-a-waying,
- went with tide,
- am carried along.
- is mistaken,
- made a mess of,
- mis-calculates,
- drop ball,
- mis apprehends,
- mis apprehending,
- mis-behaved,
- snarls up,
- boo-booing,
- were error,
- mis behave,
- boo booing,
- mis-apprehending,
- was error,
- mis behaves,
- dropped ball,
- mis judges,
- flubbing,
- wert error,
- mis judged,
- mis calculating,
- boo-booed,
- mis calculates,
- mis-judged,
- mis-judges,
- mis-apprehend,
- are incorrect,
- be error,
- made mess of,
- are in error,
- dropping ball,
- dropt ball,
- drops the ball,
- mis-apprehends,
- boo booed,
- were mistaken,
- was in error,
- wast mistaken,
- am in error,
- drops ball,
- mis calculate,
- snarling up,
- being inaccurate,
- mis-apprehended,
- art mistaken,
- is inaccurate,
- mis judging,
- art in error,
- art incorrect,
- make mess of,
- wert inaccurate,
- are error,
- were incorrect,
- wast in error,
- wast error,
- went wrong,
- is incorrect,
- dropt the ball,
- art inaccurate,
- wert mistaken,
- is error,
- were inaccurate,
- being incorrect,
- bollixes,
- is in error,
- being in error,
- makes mess of,
- wert in error,
- making mess of,
- snafuing,
- mis calculated,
- am error,
- boobooed,
- boobooing,
- being mistaken,
- was inaccurate,
- mis-calculated,
- wast inaccurate,
- mis-behaves,
- were in error,
- making a mess of,
- mis-calculating,
- mis apprehended,
- mis-behave,
- being error,
- mis apprehend,
- wast incorrect,
- mis-calculate,
- wert incorrect,
- mis behaved,
- slipt up,
- mis-judging,
- was incorrect,
- makes a mess of,
- are inaccurate.
- hits trail,
- hit trail,
- hitting the trail,
- hitting trail,
- runs around,
- hits the trail,
- ran around,
- hit road,
- running around.
- out-run,
- slips away,
- slipt away,
- un-burden,
- un-burdened,
- wandered from,
- leaved behind,
- un burdened,
- out run,
- gave slip,
- out running,
- slipped away,
- un burdens,
- give slip,
- out-runs,
- un-burdens,
- wanders from,
- un burden,
- gives slip,
- wandering from,
- un-burdening,
- giving the slip,
- gave the slip,
- gives the slip,
- leaves behind,
- out-running,
- out runs,
- giving slip,
- un burdening.
- extravagating,
- being all over map,
- extravagates,
- re coiling,
- gets sidetracked,
- being over the map,
- extravagated,
- is all over the map,
- am all over the map,
- art all over map,
- art all over the map,
- was all over the map,
- were over map,
- re coils,
- art over map,
- was over the map,
- am over the map,
- wast all over map,
- wert over map,
- is over map,
- am over map,
- was all over map,
- is over the map,
- are all over the map,
- gotten sidetracked,
- wast over map,
- re-coiled,
- got sidetracked,
- wert all over map,
- re coiled,
- art over the map,
- be over the map,
- is all over map,
- re coil,
- were over the map,
- being all over the map,
- was over map,
- re-coils,
- wert all over the map,
- were all over map,
- were all over the map,
- am all over map,
- wert over the map,
- getting sidetracked,
- are over the map,
- are over map,
- re-coiling,
- re-coil,
- wast all over the map,
- be all over map,
- being over map,
- be over map,
- wast over the map,
- are all over map,
- gat sidetracked.
- talk top head,
- ex-tending,
- pro tract,
- gotten off the subject,
- ex-tends,
- being diffuse,
- going off tangent,
- loses thread,
- gets off subject,
- get off subject,
- pro tracts,
- de-scant,
- gotten subject,
- ex tend,
- gat the subject,
- ranting and rave,
- beating around bush,
- going tangent,
- talking off top of head,
- went off tangent,
- gets off the subject,
- talking randomly,
- talked top head,
- talks off top head,
- got off subject,
- talks top head,
- got the subject,
- gotten the subject,
- went tangent,
- getting off subject,
- talk top of head,
- talked off top of head,
- goes off on tangent,
- was diffuse,
- de scant,
- talks top of head,
- goes on on,
- went and on,
- losing the thread,
- go on tangent,
- gat off subject,
- goes off tangent,
- getting subject,
- pro-tract,
- talking top head,
- talking top of head,
- going on tangent,
- gat subject,
- rants rave,
- rants and rave,
- beats around bush,
- is diffuse,
- talks randomly,
- rattles on,
- art diffuse,
- going on and on,
- sprangles,
- ex-tended,
- Prosed,
- gat off the subject,
- wert diffuse,
- am diffuse,
- ranted rave,
- rant rave,
- get subject,
- talk off top head,
- losing thread,
- talked top of head,
- de-scanting,
- went on and on,
- go on on,
- talked nonsense,
- de scants,
- going on on,
- went on tangent,
- gotten off subject,
- lost thread,
- ranted and rave,
- goes tangent,
- were diffuse,
- talking off top head,
- talked off top head,
- loses the thread,
- getting the subject,
- rattled on,
- de-scants,
- pro-tracts,
- talks off top of head,
- goes and on,
- lose thread,
- ex-tend,
- going and on,
- ex tends,
- de scanted,
- ex tended,
- talking nonsense,
- go and on,
- goes on tangent,
- lost the thread,
- went on on,
- getting off the subject,
- got off the subject,
- gets subject,
- go tangent,
- went off on tangent,
- wast diffuse,
- de-scanted,
- de scanting,
- get the subject,
- gets the subject,
- goes on and on,
- got subject,
- go off tangent,
- ranting rave,
- are diffuse,
- ex tending,
- talked randomly,
- going off on tangent,
- talks nonsense.
- following ones nose,
- globe trots,
- following nose,
- made circuit,
- followed nose,
- re-aching,
- globe trotting,
- follows one's nose,
- re ached,
- follows ones nose,
- globetrots,
- followed ones nose,
- makes circuit,
- following one nose,
- follows one nose,
- follow ones nose,
- globe-trotted,
- re aching,
- globe-trots,
- globe trotted,
- followed one nose,
- following one's nose,
- globetrotted,
- followed one's nose,
- re-ached,
- follows nose,
- making circuit,
- follow one nose,
- follow nose,
- circumambulates.
- lives sin,
- wallowed in mire,
- wallows mire,
- sowed wild oats,
- live sin,
- broke law,
- brake law,
- wallows in the mire,
- taking the primrose path,
- mis conducted,
- mis conducting,
- commits crime,
- falls from grace,
- took the primrose path,
- committing crime,
- took primrose path,
- wallow the mire,
- doth wrong,
- mis conducts,
- wallow in mire,
- mis-conducts,
- lived in sin,
- wallowing mire,
- takes primrose path,
- fell from grace,
- wallow mire,
- wallowed mire,
- living in sin,
- didst wrong,
- lived sin,
- mis conduct,
- wallows the mire,
- wallowed in the mire,
- doest wrong,
- broke commandment,
- wallowing in mire,
- taking primrose path,
- breaking law,
- wallows in mire,
- doeth wrong,
- lives in sin,
- take primrose path,
- sowing wild oats,
- brake commandment,
- wallowed the mire,
- falling from grace,
- takes the primrose path,
- mis-conducting,
- sows wild oats,
- living sin,
- breaks law,
- dost wrong,
- wallowing in the mire,
- committed crime,
- breaking commandment,
- breaks commandment,
- mis-conducted,
- mis-conduct,
- wallowing the mire.
- getting off course,
- goes off course,
- departing from,
- went off course,
- training off,
- trained off,
- gets course,
- sheering off,
- gotten course,
- gat off course,
- getting course,
- sheers off,
- trains off,
- went course,
- go course,
- got course,
- gotten off course,
- going course,
- get course,
- got off course,
- goes course,
- departs from,
- gets off course,
- gat course,
- sheered off,
- departed from.
Other synonyms:
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- patter,
- sashay,
- waltz,
- shimmy,
- shamble,
- mince,
- trek,
- slosh,
- amble,
- tiptoe,
- galumph,
- prowl,
- saunter,
- swagger,
- strut,
- stomp,
- lumber,
- mosey,
- fall in,
- waddle,
- stroll,
- lollop,
- prance,
- stride,
- perambulate,
- goose step,
- crawl,
- flounce.
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- scuff,
- astray,
- lag,
- fall into,
- trot,
- tread,
- continue,
- traipse,
- troll,
- get away from,
- shuffle,
- stump,
- disoriented,
- drag in,
- walk off,
- stalk.
-
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- march.
-
•
- climb.
-
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- get off.
- slipping up,
- be in error,
- Transgressed,
- go astray,
- went astray,
- bollixed,
- go wrong,
- make a mess of,
- snafued,
- dropping the ball,
- snarl up,
- slips up,
- booboo,
- goes wrong,
- flubbed,
- bollixing,
- muff,
- was mistaken,
- booboos,
- dropped the ball,
- going wrong,
- be mistaken,
- drop the ball,
- boo-boos,
- bollix,
- snarled up,
- be inaccurate,
- goof,
- boo-boo,
- slipped up,
- goes astray,
- be incorrect,
- going astray.
- unburden,
- slip away,
- losing,
- slipping away,
- leave behind,
- shakes off,
- give the slip,
- unburdening,
- lose,
- unburdens,
- unburdened,
- left behind,
- wander from,
- leaving behind,
- shake off.
- draw near,
- sail,
- does wrong,
- circumambulated,
- sin,
- drift,
- sprangling,
- spread eagle,
- sideslip,
- doing wrong,
- depart,
- wallow in the mire,
- beat around bush,
- lose the thread,
- break commandment,
- depart from,
- talk randomly,
- TRAIN OFF,
- Prosing,
- Zigzagging,
- wander,
- follow one's nose,
- rattling on,
- Danced,
- meander,
- Zigzagged,
- go off course,
- get sidetracked,
- Strolled,
- misconducted,
- Promenading,
- Sheered,
- mucked,
- sprangle,
- do wrong,
- roam,
- sheer off,
- drew near,
- gallivant,
- sideslips,
- kick around,
- knock about,
- struggle along,
- vagabonding,
- take the primrose path,
- make circuit,
- range,
- go off on tangent,
- drawing near,
- commit crime,
- kicked around,
- scudding,
- go with the tide,
- ramble,
- kicking around,
- Jaunted,
- spreadeagle,
- Snaked,
- sheers,
- zigzags,
- slues,
- rattle on,
- Snaking,
- go-that-a-way,
- globetrotting,
- bum around,
- get off the subject,
- roll,
- err,
- globe trot,
- apostatize,
- sideslipped,
- flutter,
- globe-trotting,
- be all over the map,
- Bummed,
- be diffuse,
- globetrot,
- rant and rave,
- sow wild oats,
- going off course,
- Promenaded,
- hit the trail,
- did wrong,
- get off course,
- Sheering,
- sideslipping,
- circumambulate,
- mucking,
- live in sin,
- draws near,
- spread-eagle,
- Jaunting,
- peregrinate,
- misconducting,
- diverge,
- Blathered,
- slue,
- Slued,
- dancing,
- Extravagate,
- maunder,
- vagabonded,
- meandering,
- be carried along,
- go on and on,
- talk off top of head,
- knock around,
- Sluing,
- Sauntered,
- run around,
- sprangled,
- blathering,
- Bumming,
- talk nonsense,
- circumambulating,
- gad,
- globe-trot,
- swerve,
- break law.
- Circumnutate,
- hopscotch,
- aberrated,
- take the road,
- take to the road,
- aberrate,
- lose train of thought,
- hopscotched.
- loiter,
- unspecified,
- formless,
- idler,
- break away,
- assert,
- mindless,
- departing,
- intimation,
- purposeless,
- crop,
- be sick,
- suspicion,
- streaming,
- shapeless,
- broadcast,
- Heteromorphic,
- castaway,
- wander about,
- vomit up,
- put,
- chuck,
- epidemic,
- offend,
- avow,
- single,
- suggestion,
- Deviatory,
- peculiar,
- describe,
- betray,
- flap,
- ease off,
- slip,
- wave,
- casual,
- project,
- wheel,
- be absent,
- catch-as-catch-can,
- hurtle,
- alter,
- dawdle,
- go away,
- promiscuous,
- streak,
- roll out,
- wanton,
- teratogenic,
- slog,
- gloomy,
- affirm,
- deviant,
- jog,
- trace,
- beggar,
- get lost,
- scattered,
- incidental,
- freewheel,
- deflect,
- dream,
- planetary,
- unplanned,
- fantasy,
- cuckold,
- quit,
- part,
- division,
- disheveled,
- condescend,
- indefinite,
- obscure,
- discursive,
- mold,
- lone,
- float,
- egregious,
- disgorge,
- lawless,
- dispread,
- verify,
- straggle,
- adventitious,
- cheat on,
- singular,
- Swagsman,
- sick,
- twist and turn,
- wander off,
- subnormal,
- place,
- straggler,
- throw,
- urchin,
- prize,
- out-of-the-way,
- circuitous,
- separated,
- retch,
- hurl,
- pull up stakes,
- unsystematic,
- scarecrow,
- piker,
- turn over,
- hit the road,
- trudge,
- indiscriminate,
- snaky,
- illogical,
- regorge,
- hit-or-miss,
- Out of keeping,
- unsettled,
- irregular,
- run,
- widespread,
- fortuitous,
- touch,
- dispersed,
- puke,
- sundowner,
- inexplicable,
- eccentric,
- dally,
- sidetrack,
- go amiss,
- regurgitate,
- array,
- grade,
- accidental,
- desultory,
- leave,
- count ties,
- stargaze,
- waifs and strays,
- wind,
- quarantined,
- disconnected,
- unspecific,
- disjunct,
- arab,
- drop,
- Vagabondize,
- start out,
- be adrift,
- crab-like,
- shy,
- mudlark,
- stiff,
- rove,
- abnormal,
- ragamuffin,
- unaccountable,
- sporadic,
- odd,
- voyage,
- mazy,
- unassembled,
- pound the pavement,
- beach bum,
- tatterdemalion,
- mistake,
- zigzag,
- different,
- commence,
- unmotivated,
- moon,
- Ragpicker,
- tinge,
- stranded,
- throw away,
- barf,
- divert,
- sidle,
- godsend,
- unordered,
- transgress,
- foundling,
- attract,
- redact,
- straddle,
- cheat,
- Swagman,
- swing,
- be wrong,
- disordered,
- hobo,
- informal,
- loose,
- vagrancy,
- unnatural,
- loafer,
- Abnormous,
- jaunt,
- purge,
- sprawl,
- aleatory,
- unpremeditated,
- unexpected,
- someday,
- derive,
- swerving,
- walk the tracks,
- spread,
- ramble on,
- derelict,
- cruise,
- couch,
- set forth,
- Heteroclite,
- step aside,
- stochastic,
- Ragman,
- general,
- fall,
- hustle,
- upchuck,
- seethe,
- amorphous,
- out of order,
- honk,
- yaw,
- turning,
- divergent,
- begin,
- promenade,
- freak,
- unfixed,
- Anomalistic,
- cast-off,
- far,
- come,
- order,
- VAG,
- lay out,
- dodge,
- misguided,
- footslog,
- contrive,
- Wayfare,
- exclusive,
- soul,
- deviative,
- sometime,
- misbelieve,
- pasture,
- outcast,
- allow,
- chance,
- bum,
- veering,
- uncalculated,
- go all over the map,
- sparse,
- gamin,
- go awry,
- aver,
- take off,
- take leave,
- serendipitous,
- deposit,
- graze,
- fork,
- anomalous,
- exceptional,
- ski bum,
- turn away,
- haphazard,
- abandon,
- vomit,
- youngster,
- animal shelter animal,
- Trapes,
- depict,
- swan,
- garbled,
- street urchin,
- pad,
- rounder,
- bummer,
- detached,
- separate,
- winding,
- lapse,
- rate,
- disjointed,
- flit,
- non-specific,
- miscalculate,
- go the rounds,
- lessen,
- tack,
- turn,
- house cat,
- skew,
- indirect,
- straying,
- plod,
- cat,
- tincture,
- wrap,
- unorganized,
- unconnected,
- Deviating,
- spue,
- bat around,
- daydream,
- arbitrary,
- twist,
- fix,
- thing,
- twisting,
- funny,
- turn away from,
- gamine,
- Nomadize,
- swear,
- steer clear of,
- fail,
- tramp,
- Strayed,
- spew,
- widely,
- mould,
- aberrant,
- lazzarone,
- start,
- snake,
- elapse,
- digressive,
- marooned,
- muse,
- shade,
- haze,
- pipe dream,
- beachcomber,
- excursive,
- lose one's way,
- archaic trespass,
- browse,
- Losel,
- pluck,
- shed,
- cur,
- weave,
- set out,
- frame,
- domestic cat,
- mooch,
- labyrinthine,
- revolve,
- Tralineate,
- blow,
- guttersnipe,
- wander away,
- strain,
- Biblical trespass,
- on the bum,
- throw up,
- originate,
- nuts,
- wastrel,
- be lost,
- Street Arab,
- rambling,
- go about,
- draw,
- career,
- Landloper,
- aberrative,
- causeless,
- out of place,
- serpentine,
- be abandoned,
- roll up.
How to use "Stray" in context?
Stray animals are not always treated as animals with a home to go to and are left to fend for themselves. In some cases, strays can turn into alley cats, as they have learned to scavenge and find food in order to survive. In some cases, strays can turn into pests in a certain area when they try to eat whatever they can. Other times, strays can make great pets. If a stray animal is brought to an animal shelter or rescue group, they may be able to find a home quickly.
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Proper noun, singular
rovers.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
vagabond.
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Proper noun, singular
Homophones for Stray:
- side door, shade tree, storeria, show the door, scoter, stria, seder, sitar, shooter, sagittaria, skid row, suture, store, set theory, statutory, sitter, satyr, shad roe, Shittah Tree, stirrer, shedder, shudder, sudra, skater, shatter, starr, setaria, sea otter, stature, stereo, shouter, suggester, squatter, storey, sutura, sister, steer, starer, swither, seeder, shyster, sea scooter, steerer, stater, stir, stator, sweater, shutter, six-shooter, sixty-three, story, stayer, sudor, satureia, swatter, stare, Skye Terrier, stutter, shoetree, skidder, six-day war, star, scooter, strew, setter, satori, sutra, stairway, skitter, sequester, Sectary, seawater, satire, six day war, stutterer, shuddery, sector, suitor, strayer, soda water, shoe store, steatorrhea, sou'wester, straw, statuary, scatter, starry, sea aster, souther, shudra, Strey, succeeder, Sudatory, scouter, shot tower, sou'easter, stair, sea star, shadower.
Hyponym for Stray:
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domesticated animal, domestic animal.
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