Definitions For Allow

verb

  • Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
  • Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
  • Consent to, give permission
  • Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
  • Let have
  • Grant as a discount or in exchange
  • Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
  • Allow the other (baseball) team to score
  • Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
  • Afford possibility
  • To permit (something) : to regard or treat (something) as acceptable
  • To permit (someone) to have or do something
  • To permit (someone) to go or come in, out, etc.

Is Allow a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
10

The word Allow is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Allow in a Sentence

  • A religion that does not allow divorce
  • They don't allow smoking in this hotel.
  • I want to change my schedule, but my boss won't allow it.

Synonyms for Allow

Antonyms for Allow

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