Definitions for affords

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affords af·ford

Spelling: [uh-fawrd, uh-fohrd]

IPA: /əˈfɔrd, əˈfoʊrd/

Affords is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in affords (adffors).

Definitions for affords

verb (used with object)

1. to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect:
2. to be able to meet the expense of; have or be able to spare the price of:
3. to be able to give or spare:
4. to furnish; supply:
5. to be capable of yielding or providing:
6. to give or confer upon:

Origin of affords

before 1050; Middle English aforthen, iforthen, Old English geforthian to further, accomplish, equivalent to ge- y- + forth forth + -ian infini

Examples for affords

The present affords just cause for satisfaction; the future is bright with hope.

My present situation, I am sure, thought I, affords a sad evidence of this truth!

Running Hyde Park in the early morning affords a blend of sights, sounds, and, yes, smells.

He will take them into the lighthouse and up the spiral staircase to the top, which affords a spectacular view of the Arabian Sea.

This Causse affords some interesting facts for evolutionists.

Is it pompous to wonder why, as a working journalist, Wikipedia affords the other guy that title?

It affords an adequate idea of the march of facts and of ideas.

Part of the experience with any tobacco is the relationship it affords with time.

What a majority of Israelis support is the principle of separation that the “two-state solution” affords.

Yet, today, it hardly more than affords me room to roost on.