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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
Carly Fiorina

Meaning of "awry" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AWRY

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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AWRY

awry  [əˈraɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AWRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Awry can act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES AWRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of awry in the English dictionary

The definition of awry in the dictionary is with a slant or twist to one side; askew. Other definition of awry is away from the appropriate or right course; amiss.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AWRY


cry
kraɪ
dry
draɪ
fry
fraɪ
hexerei
ˌhɛksəˈraɪ
Madurai
ˈmædjʊˌraɪ
marae
məˈraɪ
outcry
ˈaʊtˌkraɪ
pirai
pɪˈraɪ
pry
praɪ
rai
raɪ
retry
riːˈtraɪ
rye
raɪ
samurai
ˈsæmʊˌraɪ
serai
sɛˈraɪ
serail
səˈraɪ
sori
ˈsɔːraɪ
stir-fry
ˈstɜːˈfraɪ
Terai
təˈraɪ
tori
ˈtɔːraɪ
try
traɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AWRY

awless
awlwort
awmrie
awmry
awn
awned
awner
awning
awninged
awnless
awny
awoke
awoken
AWOL
awork
awrack
AWRE
awrong
AWS
awsome

WORDS THAT END LIKE AWRY

a far cry
angry
anniversary
battery
blackberry
carry
category
celery
century
cherry
contemporary
country
cowry
dowry
Jewry
lowry
money cowry
Newry
outlawry
the Jewry

Synonyms and antonyms of awry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AWRY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «awry» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of awry

Translation of «awry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AWRY

Find out the translation of awry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of awry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «awry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mal
570 millions of speakers

English

awry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टेढ़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

منحرف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наперекосяк
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

errado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টেরা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

de travers
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Awry
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schief
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

間違って
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비스듬히
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Awry
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோணலாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्ताव्यस्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ters
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

storto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

opak
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наперекосяк
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

intr-o parte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στραβά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

snett
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forkjært
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of awry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AWRY»

The term «awry» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.386 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AWRY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about awry

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8 QUOTES WITH «AWRY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word awry.
1
Don Bluth
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
2
Steven Bochco
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.
3
Carly Fiorina
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
4
Nikolai Gogol
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
5
Rose McGowan
I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
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Nancy Meyers
Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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Andrew Solomon
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.
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Walter Ulbricht
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AWRY»

Discover the use of awry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to awry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through ...
He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead - a strategy of ...
Slavoj Žižek, 1992
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The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry
This work delivers the unpopular message that the West has played a pivotal role in the Russian economic disaster of the 1990s.
Lawrence R. Klein, Marshall I. Pomer, 2001
3
Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist ...
Emma Crosby's letters to family and friends in Ontario shed lighton a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionarywives.
Jan Hare, Jean Barman, 2011
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Good Intentions Gone Awry: No-fault Divorce and the American ...
This text offers a review and analysis of divorce law in America, with some proposed changes in the law.
Allen M. Parkman, 2000
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Shakespeare and Michelangelo : the Style of Gods Eyed Awry : ...
Mighty gossips faced chop-logic death. Free Speech advocate Shakespeare, outwitted censors by converting Leonardo's invention to the Shakespeare code. Reincarnated artist models, actors, and lawyers, solve dozens of riddles.
‎2005
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Awry in Arabia
Nurse Emma Gildcrest wrestles to hold onto her faith in a country that forbids any religion other than Islam. She is challenged by severity and the threat of punishment by one of Saudi's ruling royals.
MD Kavanwal, 2010
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Coronary: A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry
Recounts how two California heart doctors performed countless surgeries and generated enormous profits for their hospital's management company before they were investigated for subjecting healthy patients to unnecessary medical procedures.
Stephen Klaidman, 2008
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Rationality Gone Awry?: Decision Making Inconsistent With ...
Gives perspective to the increasing evidence of financial and economic anomalies and argues for a comprehensive behavioral framework for economics and finance.
Hugh Schwartz, 2000
9
Indigena Awry:
This is bruising and exacting stuff, but Annharte is also one of poetry's best jokers. In Indigena Awry, you can find fictitious girl gangs coexisting with real boy ones.
Annharte, 2012
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Disordered and Deviant Behavior: Learning Gone Awry
Each program is guided by the assumption that disorder and deviance follow from faulty learning experiences that result in dysfunctional acquisition of behavior, and from ineffective efforts at resolution or compensations.
Alfred B. Heilbrun, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AWRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term awry is used in the context of the following news items.
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Video game version of Phil Kessel trade goes awry
For NHL purists, one of the biggest challenges with video games is keeping the rosters up-to-date with all of the real life NHL transactions ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»
2
Dear Reader | Best laid plans go awry on editorial page; box scores …
We hold these truths to be self-evident: Sometimes we think our instructions are clear and they are anything but. That's what happened to the ... «Myrtle Beach Sun News, Jul 15»
3
Plymouth's DA faces fire for witness deals gone awry
BROCKTON — District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz built his reputation as a tough-talking law-and-order Republican who doesn't make deals with ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
4
Surgery goes awry, dad seeks mercy killing for 12-yr-old
NAINITAL: 12-year-old Rani's father Govind Upreti has approached the district magistrate of Udham Singh Nagar seeking mercy killing for his ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
5
Chihuahuas fireworks display goes awry (with video)
The El Paso Chihuahuas' dramatic come from behind ninth inning victory Thursday night was followed by an equally dramatic malfunction at a ... «KVIA El Paso, Jul 15»
6
Public Release: 2-Jul-2015 In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting …
Public Release: 2-Jul-2015 In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage. NIH research points to microglia as potential therapeutic ... «EurekAlert, Jul 15»
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Predictably, In Just 24 Hours, The Kings' Plans Have Gone Awry
Yesterday the Sacramento Kings made a bad trade. For the privilege of giving away two marginally useful players and thus opening up an ... «Deadspin, Jul 15»
8
Indie rock band story gone awry
La vida de alguien, Ezequiel Acuña's new film, concerns the story of Guille (Santiago Pedrero), a young musician who decides to reunite the ... «Buenos Aires Herald, Jul 15»
9
UFC's 'fight kit' reveal goes awry as Reebok misspells several fighter …
For the last week the UFC teased that fans would not want to miss Tuesday's official unveiling of the company's new UFC "Fighter Kits. «Yahoo Canada Sports, Jun 15»
10
Edmonton bachelor party stunt goes terribly awry when police show …
WATCH ABOVE: It was a surprise party that went horribly wrong when neighbours called police. Jessica Kent explains. EDMONTON – It was ... «Globalnews.ca, Jun 15»

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