Definition of bought

"bought" in the verb sense

1. buy, purchase

obtain by purchase acquire by means of a financial transaction

"The family purchased a new car"

"The conglomerate acquired a new company"

"She buys for the big department store"

2. bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms

make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

"This judge can be bought"

3. buy

be worth or be capable of buying

"This sum will buy you a ride on the train"

4. buy

acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange

"She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work"

5. buy

accept as true

"I can't buy this story"

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Quotations for bought

Wit may be bought too dear. [ Proverb ]

Love is neither bought nor sold. [ Proverb ]

Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought;
Nor voice, nor sound betrays
Its deep, impassioned gaze. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Love gives itself, but is not bought. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Bought friends are not friends indeed. [ Proverb ]

I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere;
'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere;
'Tis never to be bought, but always free. [ Pope ]

Friendship is not to be bought at a fair. [ Proverb ]

To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
No - all that's worth a wish - a thought.
Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
Let nobler views engage thy mind. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Alas, could experience be bought for gold! [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Vinegar given is better than honey bought. [ Arab. Proverb ]

Bought wit is best, but may cost too much. [ Proverb ]

Experience is good, if not bought too dear. [ Proverb ]

Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold. [ Pope ]

Even grave divines submit to glittering gold,
The best of consciences are bought and sold. [ Dr. Wolcot ]

Judges and senates have been bought for gold. [ Pope ]

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [ Seneca ]

Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass. [ William Shakespeare ]

Bought wit is best, (i.e. bought by experience). [ Proverb ]

Far-fetched and dear-bought, is good for ladies. [ Proverb ]

That man is well bought who costs but a salutation. [ Proverb ]

A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you. [ Proverb ]

Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love. [ Proverb ]

Women are better sold for sorrow, than bought for repentance. [ Proverb ]

Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be a dear pennyworth. [ Proverb ]

Honesty may be dear bought, but can ne'er be an ill pennyworth. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market. [ Lowell ]

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. [ Proverb ]

Business is bought at a dear hand where there is small despatch. [ Bacon ]

There is no sweeter repose than that which is bought with labor. [ Chamfort ]

None hastens to that market where nothing is to be bought but blows. [ Proverb ]

Good conscience is sometimes sold for money, but never bought with it. [ Aughey ]

He bought the fox-skin for threepence, and sold the tail for a shilling. [ Proverb ]

I would thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. [ William Shakespeare ]

Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought, love gives itself, but is not bought. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

If I had given four-pence for that advice, I had bought it a groat too dear. [ Proverb ]

Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, Shall ever find such faith so bought - so sold. [ William Shakespeare ]

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer-bought. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together. [ Carlyle ]

All that is enviable is not bought: love, genius, beauty, are divine gifts that the richest cannot acquire. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. We are bought by the enemy with the treasure in our own coffers. [ Burke ]

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing. [ Hillard ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

bought in Scrabble®

The word bought is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters bought:

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bought in Words With Friends™

The word bought is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters bought:

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Words within the letters of bought

2 letter words in bought (4 words)

3 letter words in bought (15 words)

4 letter words in bought (6 words)

5 letter words in bought (3 words)

6 letter words in bought (1 word)

bought + 1 blank (1 word)

bought + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence bought

Words that start with bought (1 word)

Words with bought in them (2 words)

Word Growth involving bought

Shorter words in bought

ugh bough

ugh ought

Longer words containing bought

outbought

overbought

rebought prebought

rebought storebought storeboughten

unbought

underbought