Timeline for What's the verb to describe a good guy becoming a bad guy?
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| Jun 26, 2017 at 15:01 | comment | added | alwayslearning | @PeterA.Schneider, it is possible to stray and be lost permanently as much as it is possible to fall and get up. | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 12:28 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | To me stray has a temporary feel. As in, he strayed but got back on track, for example in a marriage. As opposed to fallen, which is not sideways and reversible but downward and virtually irreversible, like with a fallen angel. Actually, the example with the children illustrates the point pretty nicely. | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 18:35 | comment | added | Armfoot | From all the answers in here, this seems the most appropriate one, since straying actually implies a literal deviation from a "good path", while turning can be used in both "ways" and may imply that there was a specific trigger, as Charles suggested in a comment. | |
| Jun 21, 2017 at 16:01 | history | answered | alwayslearning | CC BY-SA 3.0 |