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# awry

adverb or adjective (no change in form)

«awry» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Awry means crooked, not straight or not in its right place: a hat set awry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/#m1)
2. «Go awry» means go wrong and not turn out as planned. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales a hairstyle or a plan is not neat, or a plan fails.

### Examples

- Any one but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she dressed them well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/#x1)
- Our picnic went awry when it rained. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths; a plan that goes awry gives a wrong answer, but the word does not change the numbers.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «awry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«awry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/awry.html) on Mova free.