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Meaning Of Avail

  1. v. t.
    To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
  2. v. t.
    To promote; to assist.
  3. v. i.
    To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.
  4. n.
    Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
  5. n.
    Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
  6. v. t. & i.
    See Avale, v.



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