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Avail

noun

A means of serving. Synonyms: help, service. "There's no help for it"

verb

(past & past part. availed; pres. part. availing)

Use to one's advantage.

Be of use to, be useful to.

Take or use. Synonym: help.

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"Avail" Quotes from Famous Books

... ugly enough herb, a prickly plant which sprawled low in the shadow of the trees. Its root was black, and it had a milk- white flower; the Gods called it Moly, and no mortal strength could avail to pull it from the soil; but as Odysseus says, telling the story, "There is nothing which the Gods cannot do"; and it came up easily enough at the touch of the beardless youth. We know how the ...

— Escape and Other Essays • Arthur Christopher Benson

... fast!" roared the captain, as he stormed about the deck in a paroxysm of rage. But man's rage could avail nothing. They had missed the passage by a few feet, and now they had to wait the fall and rise again of the tide ere they could ...

— Martin Rattler • R.M. Ballantyne

... cannot avail myself of Mr. Gifford's remarks, because I have received none, except on the first act. ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... she said, and Miss Todd, looking round from a neighbouring table, shone upon her with her rosy face. But all the shining was of no avail. ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... men. Therefore they sought to turn the hero from this venture. Up spake then the daring Siegfried: "Dear father mine, I would fain ever be without the love of noble dames, if I may not woo her in whom my heart hath great delight; whatsoever any may aver, it will avail ...

— The Nibelungenlied • Unknown

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