Protract is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for PROTRACT in dictionary:

VERB:

to prolong
lengthen or extend (a situation etc)
To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.
To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.
lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
prolong

NOUN:

Tedious continuance or delay.

Words related to PROTRACT

protracted15 protractedly20 protractedness19 protracting16 protractive18 protracts13

Words that contain PROTRACT

protracts13 protracted15 protractor14 protractile15 protracting16 protraction15 protractive18 protractors15 protractedly20 protractible18 protractions16 protractedness19

How to use PROTRACT in a sentence

But it will, in these cases, husband and protract its murderous enjoyment with the refinement of an epicure, and heighten it by the gradual approaches of an artful courtship.
Since I did leave the presence of my Love, Many long weary dayes I have outworne, And many nights, that slowly seemd to move Theyr sad protract from evening untill morn.
From these they expected considerable aid, both of horse and foot, and hoped to protract the war till winter, in a friendly country.
Wherefore, with the general consent, Curio determined to wait for the rest of his forces, and protract the war.
Wilson thought would only protract the evil, and she was compelled to wait his own time.
Their only source of anxiety was, lest the other Hasdrubal and Mago, terrified at his discomfiture, should protract the war by withdrawing into trackless forests and mountains.
He at last discovered, that his terrours and grief were equally vain, and that to lose the present in lamenting the past, was voluntarily to protract a melancholy vision.
That a longer march will require more time, is not to be mentioned, as implying any defect in a scheme, of which the whole purpose is to lengthen the march, and protract the time.
And forth from the outskirts of Oxford rides Rupert on the day we are to describe, and we must still protract our pause a little longer to speak of him.
The opportunity had probably been given purposely by the savages, for their diversion, and in order to protract the terrors of the captive, and knowing that flight was impossible.

The German troops are their strongest fighting arm, but their constitutions will not be strong enough to stand the change of weather, if we protract the war into the summer.
At length, however, this monarch being constrained to come to a general battle, and no longer able to protract the war, was routed with great slaughter.
This appears a strong demand, and one likely to protract the present distracted state of the country.
As the French king was said to protract the demolition of Dunkirk, Mr.
Walpole, now paymaster of the forces, observed, that such a method would protract the inquiry, while the public credit lay in a bleeding condition.
They would have started doubts with respect to the late signal success in Germany, and hinted, that it would only serve to protract the burden of a continental war.
Napoleon referred him to Minister Champagny, who, by all sorts of subterfuges, managed to protract and finally to break off the negotiations.
Yet despite this there was a strong and energetic party who wished to protract the siege, and the deputies appointed to arrange terms of surrender were in peril of their lives.
I protract the breakfast as long as I can, because when it is ended I have no call for my attention, till I can with some degree of decency grow impatient for my dinner.
III Ring up the curtain and the play protract! Behold our Sharon in his last mad act.
The lovers sauntered down the street slowly, as if they would protract the walk.
The hope of this, in conjunction with their fears, obliged them to protract the time longer than was consistent either with their wishes or their strength.
On the contrary, it would encourage Mexico to persevere and tend to protract it indefinitely.
But Campeggio was instructed to protract his journey to its utmost length, giving time for the campaign to decide itself.
In my view, even the minutes I have spent in expostulation have their value, because they protract the crisis, and the short period in which alone we may resolve to escape it.

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