How many syllables in Avail
Word
Avail
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
a-vail
Definition
- 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.
- v. t. - To promote; to assist.
- 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.
- n. - Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor,
without economy, is of little avail.
- n. - Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
- v. t. & i. - See Avale, v.
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