Lest is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LEST in dictionary:

VERB:
• (Spenser) to listen
• To listen.
• listen
NOUN:
• Lust; desire; pleasure.
CONJUNCTION:
• with the intention of preventing (something undesirable); to avoid the risk of
• (after a clause indicating fear) because of the possibility of something undesirable happening; in case
• so as to prevent any possibility that
ADJECTIVE:
• Last; least.
• For fear that; that . . . not; in order that . . . not.
• That (without the negative particle); -- after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• for fear that

Words related to LEST

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Words that contain LEST

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How to use LEST in a sentence

• But on ancient rules lean I, Lest to wrong my thoughts should fly.
• Our guide therefore was in great fear lest we might fall in with some of these stragglers.
• Warden of the Fleet, I see I am your charge, Befriend me thus, lest by their command I be prevented of what I intend.
• It was a big room, and furtively she peered into the corners lest already hidden behind some curtain the thief should be there.
• He felt as if he had stumbled into a dream-town and must walk carefully lest he stumble out.
• Beware lest thou Caesarze thyself, for it is what happens only too often.
• In the mean time, we must be busy lest we lose the breeze.
• She touched his outstretched hand with her fingers, and then fearing lest he should change his mind, promptly rang the bell.
• The nearest relatives were careful to close their mouths, for they feared lest the soul of the dead would enter into their bodies and do them a great deal of harm.
• He said that he was indeed afraid to tell her how rich he was lest to her Arcadean views the sum might appear incredible.
• And fearing lest, by becoming known, he should himself receive some harm and at the same time prevent the success of the enterprise, he devised the following scheme.
• They have avoided asking communications from me, probably, lest they should be suspected of wishing to fish out executive secrets.
• During this time he sent another petition to the new viceroy, who, fearing lest his own reputation should suffer, released him, and was only too glad to ship him off to Holyhead.
• Ross slipped and stumbled in the ruts, fearing to fall lest he be dragged.
• She dried her eyes, but she dared not raise them lest he should read the excess of joy in a glance.
• Thy oars thou yieldst to thy fierce enemy, Waiting for death with calm collected thought, With eyelids closed, lest thou shouldst see him come.
• But then came the painful thought that he must needs repose unlimited trust in this man, lest the man learn to mistrust him, and so he drifted here and there in a sea of dangers.
• I thought of my home with a gloomy dread lest I should have to return to it.
• I years had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before Stare vacant into mine And ask my business there.
• Cavour was afraid lest Russian sympathy with the court of Naples should take a more inconvenient form than angry words.
• Be sure you do not read it aloud, lest she hear it, and prevent me, or drive you away before I come.
• But let one truth be ever present, lest justice herself be but a cover for prejudice and hate.
• He feared lest there was some intrigue, and that Bismarck proposed to secure his position by an alliance with the Parliamentary opposition.
• Mollie dared not look in their faces, lest the inward laughter that convulsed her should burst forth.
• His father was pacing up and down the hall and the verandah restlessly awaiting him, fearing lest the whole episode of the day before might not have been one of his waking dreams.

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