Defray is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 126 anagrams from letters in defray (adefry).
1535-45; Middle French défrayer, Old French deffroier to pay costs, equivalent to de- dis-1 + frayer to bear the costs, derivative of frais, fres (plural) c
There were thus three couples, and the three gentlemen were to defray all expenses.
The doctor, of course, had again to defray the expense of this purchase.
I will defray all the expenses, and will pay the reward I offered, too.
The revenues of the Union he found sufficient to defray all the current expenses.
A tax was even levied to defray the expenses of the ceremony.
All that was necessary was a grant of money to defray the charge.
Dr Franklin will defray the expense to which this may put you.
He was promised £20 to defray his travelling expenses “as soon as it can be paid.”
The which, if she defray unwillingly, then is she no Christian woman.
But he was not asked to defray the expenses of the simple funeral.
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