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What does err mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word err? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To make a mistake.
  2. (intransitive) To sin.
  3. (archaic) to stray.
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British tactics as well as strategy tended to err on the side of caution, American on the side of rashness.
When in doubt, always err on the side of caution and do not open, download, or execute files or e-mail attachments.
Republicans err in assuming that, on this subject, mothers in the old suburbs differ greatly from mothers in the new exurbs.
She submits, however, that the Board did not err in law, because it made a specific finding of incapacity based on the statutory test.
The graceful levity of the nation could not easily err in this direction, nor tolerate such deliration in the greatest of men.
It has always been a puzzle to me that a man so brilliant and personally kind can occasionally err in such judgments.

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