Straying is valid Scrabble Word

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

8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for STRAYING in dictionary:

VERB:

move away aimlessly from a group or from the right course or place
(of the eyes or a hand) move idly or casually
be unfaithful to a spouse or partner
wander or roam

NOUN:

the act of straying
a stray person or thing, especially a domestic animal.
electrical phenomena interfering with radio reception.

ADJECTIVE:

not in the right place; separated from the group or target
(of a domestic animal) having no home or having wandered away from home
(of a physical quantity) arising as a consequence of the laws of physics, but unwanted and usually having a detrimental effect on the operation of equipment

unable to find your way

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to wander from the proper area or course

Words related to STRAYING

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How to use STRAYING in a sentence

For a few hollow moments Jimmy tried to find the straying chicken.
The memory of that picture has more than once kept me from straying too far from the place of purity and safety in which her arms held me.
The first months I travelled a great deal, straying as far as Iceland.
These savages were hostile at all times, and this was one reason it was desirable to prevent the cattle straying too far and thus falling an easy prey to the Snakes.
Now their straying from the road was as perilous to them as their hunger.
Gorgeous ribbons bound his plaited hair, and a many-coloured band drew tight his straying locks.
A Citizen of the southern United States, often straying northward to New England.
Her lips smiled, and her eyes watched as she knelt beside him, her head tilted, her fingers straying over the rough surface of his coat.
CHAPTER XXIII THE BETTER MAN Down in the court of Rameses, Lady Claire and Hill were straying.
To do so is to encourage the straying of other objects.

How was he to blame her? She was straying along dangerous paths, but he himself had stood at the edge of the precipice, and looked down.
Kitty went very sweetly to the Peak, and two days afterward Max Raymond, straying up the hills with his fishing rod, strayed upon Tom Duffan, sketching.
The caravan traders bought or hired their camels, and there were fine animals for sale with one fore and one hind leg hobbled, to keep them from straying.
Two of our men, straying in that direction, had been fired upon.
And there is one guiding rule by which a man may always find this path, and keep himself from straying when he has found it.
But when I reached the beach the crowd was straying as if the excitement were over.
Softly it touched the forehead, and lay beneath the straying curl.
Hatton was in the garden, tying up some straying branches of honeysuckle.
I leaned back in my chair and watched her, her white fingers straying over the keys, her thin blue sleeves flowing back from her white arms.
At the root of the butte, hidden against its shadowy base, the mountain man lay motionless, but his eyes were open and they rested on her, not closing or straying.
She had lain there all the evening, with her hair, tumbled by the posture, fallen down and straying in dim tresses on her shoulders.
I drew back from that long, silent kiss, I gathered up each gold thread of the straying tresses, blushing, defiant.
In Devonshire you have wider horizons, save for the lanes and hedges, which do their best to keep straying eyes fastened on their own beauty.
A little lost ghost of an echo stole out of a hole and went straying up and down, feebly mocking our remarks and making them sound cheap and tawdry.
All who have come after Jannet have followed in his path, and there is no reason for straying from it.
Meanwhile it turned about to and fro, staggering and straying like one stunned, blinded, and taking his leave of the world.
Its truths, so simple and yet so grand, were at once a guide and a reproof to keep her feet from straying from the narrow way.
Some of the doors were blocked below with sliding barriers of wood, a sure token of infants inside given to straying.
All these were considered as horrid and abominable, and as if nature were straying to strange productions.
It was supposed that a band of gypsies had decoyed her away while carelessly straying too far from her home, but nothing definite was known.
Her back was toward him as she knelt there very much occupied with her straying seedlings in the cool shade of the wall.
But I am straying too far from the purpose of this letter.

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