Dictionary Entry
allow
allow is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
- 2transitive verb
To like; to be suited or pleased with.
- 3transitive verb
To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
- 4transitive verb
To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.
- 5transitive verb
To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
- 6transitive verb
To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
- 7transitive verb
To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
- 8intransitive verb
To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
- 9verb
allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
"I allow for this possibility"
"The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash"
- 10verb
give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
"I will earmark this money for your research"
"She sets aside time for meditation every day"
Synonyms
- 11verb
consent to, give permission
"She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"
"I won't let the police search her basement"
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- 12verb
allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
"We don't allow dogs here"
"Children are not permitted beyond this point"
- 13verb
let have
"grant permission"
"Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"
Synonyms
- 14verb
grant as a discount or in exchange
"The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera"
- 15verb
make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
"This permits the water to rush in"
"This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"
- 16verb
allow the other (baseball) team to score
"give up a run"
- 17verb
make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
"This leaves no room for improvement"
"The evidence allows only one conclusion"
- 18verb
afford possibility
"This problem admits of no solution"
"This short story allows of several different interpretations"
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