[əː], (Verb)

Definitions:
- be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake
(e.g: the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible)


Phrases:
- err on the right side
- err on the side of
- to err is human, to forgive divine

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘wander, go astray’): from Old French errer, from Latin errare ‘to stray’