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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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In peacetime, we err on the side of caution, since nothing we do in training is worth the life of one of our soldiers.
Republicans err in assuming that, on this subject, mothers in the old suburbs differ greatly from mothers in the new exurbs.
The damage may not be proven but we don't know, and we should err on the side of caution.
City of York Council grits around 50 per cent of the network and there is a determination to err on the side of caution.
It has always been a puzzle to me that a man so brilliant and personally kind can occasionally err in such judgments.
She submits, however, that the Board did not err in law, because it made a specific finding of incapacity based on the statutory test.

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