Dictionary Entry
defray
defray is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
- 2transitive verb
To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
- 3verb
bear the expenses of
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