Constrain is valid Scrabble Word

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

9 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for CONSTRAIN in dictionary:

VERB:

to force, compel
compel or force (someone) to follow a particular course of action
appearing forced or overly controlled
severely restrict the scope, extent, or activity of
bring about (something) by compulsion
confine forcibly; imprison
compel, force
To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.
To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.

To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
To violate; to ravish.
To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to force by imposed stricture, restriction, or limitation; to restrict the motion of (a mechanical body) to a particular mode

Words related to CONSTRAIN

constrained14 constrainer13 constrainers14 constraining15 constrains12

Words that contain CONSTRAIN

constrains12 constraint12 constrained14 constrainer13 constraints13 constrainers14 constraining15 unconstraint14 constrainable17 constrainedly19 unconstrained16 unconstraints15 unconstrainable19 unconstrainedly21

How to use CONSTRAIN in a sentence

You should constrain them to membership in class three, and at your discretion in class two.
Fear not a revolution which will constrain you to live five years in one.
In plans for adjusting the balance of power among themselves they have assumed to take us into account, and would constrain us to conform our conduct to their views.
None of the graces of the haughty patrician lady whose lightest gesture was a command, would appear in this humble girl, to mock and constrain me.
That other does not liberty constrain, But man may either act, or may refrain.
The summer has gone, and I am grieved that I have not been, from its beginning to its end, so like Him, so full of Him, as to constrain everybody I met to love Him too.
But he could not constrain his thoughts to the present moment.
It is one, at least, of such acknowledged difficulty as to constrain the writer to confess, that he enters upon it with more distrust than hope of success.
Silent, silent as they could constrain themselves to be, were mother and sisters as they stood by the windows and got their last look of the procession as it wound down the road.
If you could not get it spoken, if you could still constrain it into silence, so much the richer are you.

But the necessities of our position do in some wise constrain us, for trade and other useful purposes, to allow communication with them who are not of our way of thinking.
All magic proceeds upon the prime belief that you must possess something belonging to the person you wish to control, constrain, or injure.
This answer did not satisfy the Council, and day by day there were parleyings in which the white men and the red men sought to constrain or evade each other.
Ye constrain all things to flow towards you and into you, so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts of your love.
For wise and good reasons, our senses may so constrain us that we cannot perceive these spiritual beings.
French had left the hotel at noon that day as free as air, and he slept well that night, with no sense of the forces that were to constrain his life.
Of Rahab consider the faithful generation, Whom to wine drinking no friendship might constrain.
The grand objects of Nature perpetually constrain men to think of their Author.
God does not tempt nor constrain men to do evil, 848-l.
They, too, are always strong, compelling winds that take possession of the light, the shadow, the sun, moon, and stars, and constrain them all alike to feel the sea.
The interest we take in them will constrain them to remain at home and to return when away from it.
Will she want to leave her home and go to a foreign land? I would not like to constrain her in anything.
These necessary fundamentals of style are hardly felt by the artist to constrain his individuality of expression.
Low tortured the men to constrain them to inform him where they had hid their treasures.
The pirates brought the captains and merchants on board, and tortured them in a barbarous manner, to constrain them to tell where they had hid their treasure.
No consent of father and mother is essential for marriage between slaves, but no master can constrain slaves to marry against their will.
They do not feel themselves strong enough to seize the opportunity as it passes, to take possession of it by fair means or foul, and to constrain it to serve them.
The plan and method which is followed in this matter is, not to constrain them too much.
All this, and the great ability displayed by him in so few years, constrain us to make this representation to your Majesty, as we have no authority to reward him.
The lad shall have his will in this matter, and thou and no one shall constrain him.
In all countries where social habits and customs constrain women to lead retiring and secluded lives the number of female criminals descends to a minimum.
Recent personal observation and experience constrain me to refer to another result which will inevitably follow the passage of this bill.

Find what other words can be done using letters: "constrain"
https://scrabble-word.com/finder/constrain

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.