Captives is valid Scrabble Word

Is captives a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is captives valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for CAPTIVES in dictionary:

VERB:

CAPTIVE, to make a prisoner

NOUN:

a person who has been taken prisoner or an animal that has been confined

ADJECTIVE:

imprisoned or confined
having no freedom to choose alternatives or to avoid something
(of a facility or service) controlled by, and typically for the sole use of, an organization

Words related to CAPTIVES

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How to use CAPTIVES in a sentence

And in the biggest canoe house, the club house of the stags, where no Mary might come under penalty of death by torture, the captives were stored.
Robert thought that he and his fellow captives would have to ask the shelter of tents, but the rain passed farther to the west, though the heavy darkness remained.
Admiral John Paul Jones was then appointed special commissioner to arrange for the ransom of the captives.
Among the captives was a beautiful maiden, and the caliph made her his wife.
Agents were sent to Algiers to ransom the captives and to obtain a treaty by presents and the payment of a fixed tribute.
But on the 11th of June the Constellation came in, bringing the news of the conclusion of peace, and of the release of the captives, upon payment of sixty thousand dollars.
But the captives, besides having been deprived of all means of offense, had no exact knowledge of the exact number of men who had trapped them.
There is here an order of priests called the Mathurins, the object of whose institution is, the begging of alms for the redemption of captives.
Whatever the States may enable Congress to do for obtaining the peace of that country, it is a separate question whether they will redeem our captives, how, and at what price.
And for seven days that was the last heard, by the garrison, at least, of these most recent captives of the Sioux.

Ceuta must be surrendered, the Moorish captives in Portugal be released, and the Christian camp with everything it contained abandoned to the captors.
William Baird had not, as yet, even considered what he should do with his captives.
When would the rescuers come? A halt was made at noon, and some coarse food was passed to the captives.
The captives would be killed to get them out of the way.
Anxiously the captives scanned the horizon for a sight of some rescue party, the approach of which might have sent the Indians scurrying for cover.
During this talk between brother and sister the dirty Indian detailed to guard the captives had sauntered within view of them every now and then.
It is my wish that they may be assisted to become servants of the heavenly Kingdom, captives in the service of the will of God.
The proof is that the animals are captives of nature.
When the captives were securely bound, the captors began to discuss the situation in their own language, which was the only language they understood.
It may have been left a mere block, like the head of one of the captives of the Boboli.
He used to tear the hearts from his captives to gain the favor of the god of war.
A treaty was immediately entered into for the ransom of the captives, which was easily accomplished in regard to Mrs.
Some of the captives rose to positions of trust in the Babylonian government.
Year after year his armies marched out of Nineveh to slaughter and destroy, and to bring back with them innumerable captives and vast amounts of spoil.
Some white captives were released, and several hundred squaws made prisoners.
What really concerns is your delay in coming to New Orleans with your American captives, whom you held at your place of Beaulieu.
It appears that a fifteenth per cent of the plunder was reserved to the captives, of which the unhappy mother of the Prince of Benares was to have a share.
With Welsh the captives were taken to the Ottawa village at Detroit, where they arrived on June 4, and where Welsh and several of the soldiers were tortured to death.

Similar words containing CAPTIVE without suffix s

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