Refrains is valid Scrabble Word

Is refrains a scrabble word?
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Is refrains valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for REFRAINS in dictionary:

VERB:

REFRAIN, to keep oneself from action
stop oneself from doing something

NOUN:

a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse.
the musical accompaniment for a refrain
a comment or complaint that is often repeated

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to keep oneself back

Words related to REFRAINS

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How to use REFRAINS in a sentence

The author refrains from obtruding his own opinions on the reader, leaving things to speak for themselves.
We had a pleasant party in the Court this evening, listening to blind Pepe, who sang to his guitar a medley of merry Andalusian refrains.
Sometimes, where we should have expected him to apply his system, he refrains, whether from caution or oversight it is not easy to discover.
In the songs often whole verses, nearly always the refrains, are from older folk poetry.
He refrains from setting his cleverness against the eloquence of the facts.
He would fain have entered to gaze upon his victim, to assure himself of his victory, but he refrains.
Larsan smiled at the explanation like a man who was not fooled and politely refrains from making the slightest remark on matters which did not concern him.
After a pause follow a series of refrains of solo voices in the melody, with muted strings, with mingled strains of the motto.
But in the original the first and last lines of the first verse are used as refrains in the succeeding verses, recurring alternately as the last line.
It modestly refrains from asserting that he had only one arm and one leg.

Then Carlo, with gestures that always frightened Patrick, made the air resound with Italian refrains, to which almost always succeeded the Irish ballads of the Gordons.
The popular trick of repetition, affording a rest to the memory of the singer, is perhaps the origin of all refrains.
But he expressly refrains from requiring adherence to any particular sect.

Similar words containing FRAIN without suffix s and without prefix re

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