Definitions for avail

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avail a·vail

Spelling: [uh-veyl]

IPA: /əˈveɪl/

Avail is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in avail (aailv).

Definitions for avail

noun

1. advantage; use; efficacy; effective use in the achievement of a goal or objective:
2. avails, Archaic. profits or proceeds.
3. advantage; use; efficacy; effective use in the achievement of a goal or objective:
4. avails, Archaic. profits or proceeds.

Idioms

1. avail oneself of, to use to one's advantage:
2. avail oneself of, to use to one's advantage:

verb (used with object)

1. to be of use or value to; profit; advantage:
2. to be of use or value to; profit; advantage:

verb (used without object)

1. to be of use; have force or efficacy; serve; help:
2. to be of value or profit.
3. to be of use; have force or efficacy; serve; help:
4. to be of value or profit.

Origin of avail

1250-1300; Middle English availe, equivalent to a- a-² + vaile Old French vail- (stem of valoir) Latin valēre to be of worth

Examples for avail

What avail great talents, if they be not devoted to goodness?

Yates was something of a wrestler himself, but his skill was of no avail on this occasion.

She saw all this mentally; but would it avail anything in actuality?

In Germany, sex workers get to avail themselves of the same social-welfare infrastructure as all other German workers.

According to the friend, Brinsley rang his ex-girlfriend, an Air Force reservist named Shaneka Thompson, to no avail.

The left had long tried to resist it through a diverse mix of organizations, devoted to different goals, and all to no avail.

Both have nerve-wracked parents who tell them to sit still every 30 seconds, to no avail.

Now, he was her humble petitioner, but this servility could be of no avail to save him from shame.

His instinct of sympathy with which he had greeted her at the outset was repelled, and made of no avail.

This woke her husband, who questioned and tried to console her, to no avail.

What avail great talents, if they be not devoted to goodness?

Yates was something of a wrestler himself, but his skill was of no avail on this occasion.

She saw all this mentally; but would it avail anything in actuality?

In Germany, sex workers get to avail themselves of the same social-welfare infrastructure as all other German workers.

According to the friend, Brinsley rang his ex-girlfriend, an Air Force reservist named Shaneka Thompson, to no avail.

The left had long tried to resist it through a diverse mix of organizations, devoted to different goals, and all to no avail.

Both have nerve-wracked parents who tell them to sit still every 30 seconds, to no avail.

Now, he was her humble petitioner, but this servility could be of no avail to save him from shame.

His instinct of sympathy with which he had greeted her at the outset was repelled, and made of no avail.

This woke her husband, who questioned and tried to console her, to no avail.