Pronunciation

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Plain form
err

Third-person singular
errs

Past tense
erred

Past participle
erred

Present participle
erring

  1. (intransitive) If you err, you make a mistake; you do something wrong.
    When I was adding information into the database, I erred in keying in the values for the wrong column.
  2. (intransitive) If you err, you sin.
  3. (old, no longer used) If you err, you stray.
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