Word Finder - avail

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Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).

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I tried fixing it, to no avail.  Labor, without economy, is of little avail.

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Proceeds; profits from business transactions.

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An advertising slot or package.

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A press avail.

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While holding an avail yesterday, the candidate lashed out at critics.

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Non-binding notice of availability for work.

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A readily available stock of oil.

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Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.

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Effort; striving.

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To turn to the advantage of.

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I availed myself of the opportunity.

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To be of service to.

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Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

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To promote; to assist.

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To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.

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Medicines will not avail to halt the disease.

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To provide; to make available.

They were fortunately able to avail themselves of it.

His good intentions were of no avail to his government.

He did not avail himself of the materials available in his day.

Again, we have evidence of the power of plants to avail themselves of the heat rays.

What could Godfrey avail against such a force?

Not only did his reason not reproach him for what he had done, but he even found cause for self-satisfaction in having so successfully contrived to avail himself of a convenient opportunity to punish a criminal and at the same time pacify the mob.

Wesley's special power lay in his quickness to avail himself of circumstances and of the suggestions made by those about him.

Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.

But it was of no practical avail.

His tactical achievement could avail the emperor nothing, and it exposed his own force to considerable danger.

Unfortunately he was too soon in the field to avail himself, even had he been so minded, of the convenient mode of nomenclature brought into use by Linnaeus.

The arguments used were, however, of no avail with the regent, and the decree was promulgated on the r3th of May 1888.

Every year I come out here and try to convince him to get with the times, but it's to no avail.

I tried to shush her to little avail.

Under their able leader, Sivaji, these daring freebooters plundered in every direction, nor could all Aurangzeb's efforts avail to subdue them.

The number of Mahommedans who avail themselves of this rule is very small; naturalizations do not exceed an average of thirty persons a year.

Bagration was embarrassed, not wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first.

The class-meeting, the love-feast, the watch-night, the covenant service, leaders, stewards, lay preachers, all were the fruit of this readiness to avail himself of suggestions made by men or events.

Dean continued insisting but to no avail.

A new descent into Italy, a new seizure of Rome, proved of no avail.

Among the travellers of whose information he was thus able to avail himself were Pytheas of Massilia, Patroclus, who had visited the Caspian (285-282 B.C.), Megasthenes, who visited Palibothra on the Ganges, as ambassador of Seleucus Nicator (302-291 B.C.), Timosthenus of Rhodes, the commander of the fleet of Ptolemy Philadelphus (284-246 B.C.) who wrote a treatise " On harbours," and Philo, who visited Meroe on the upper Nile.

Deprived of their support, not all the gallantry of the French infantry could avail anything.

The Government repeatedly exposed itself to the charge of proroguing Parliament in order to avail itself of these emergency paragraphs.

Against the determination to secure a conviction, however, his courage, eloquence, coolness and skill were of no avail, and the verdict of " guilty " was given.

The large sale of the New Testaments of Tyndale, and the success of Coverdale's Bible, showed the London booksellers that a new and profitable branch of business was o opened out to them, and they soon began to avail Matthew's P ?

Patrons can avail of tapas, raciones, cheeses and desserts throughout the day every day.

The mother discouraged the affair, and, though Voltaire tried to avail himself of the mania for proselytizing which then distinguished France, his father stopped any idea of a match by procuring a lelire de cachet, which, however, he did not use.

It is of course presupposed that the juice has been properly defecated, because without this no amount of skill and knowledge in cooking in the pan will avail; the sugar resulting must be bad, either in colour or grain, or both, and certainly in polarizing power.

For the most part, the Arab tribes have been reluctant to avail themselves of their new powers, and where they have done so the hasty reversal of the traditions of centuries has proved demoralizing to the natives, without any sufficient equivalent in the way of healthy French colonization.

Indeed, throughout his writings he shows a constant wish to avail himself of what is true in the opinions of others, whether they are philosophers, or poets or ordinary people expressing their thoughts in sayings and proverbs.

When it is proposed, by way of insurance on Athenian possessions abroad, to flatter the favourite of a doubtful ally, Athens must remember that such devices will not avail a power which has no army except on paper, and no ships fit to leave their moorings.

Only the black caucus in the House of Representatives has had the courage to openly protest, but to no avail.

No skill in drawing inferences will avail him there.

Bitterly did he blame himself and repent when repentance was of no avail.

Thou canst not present any service or sacrifice that will at all avail thee for averting the Divine wrath or winning the Divine favor.

The advocacy of Hasan ibn Haidara Fergani was without avail; but in 1017 (408 A.H.) the new religion found a more successful apostle in the person of Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmed, a Persian mystic, felt-maker by trade, who became Hakim's vizier, gave form and substance to his creed, and by an ingenious adaptation of its various dogmas to the prejudices of existing sects, finally enlisted an extensive body of adherents.

The treaty, however, proved of no avail, and the king kept as aloof as of old from any outside interference.

Medical aid having proved of no avail, he went to Ireland in 1665 to be "stroked" by Valentine Greatrakes, but "found not his disease to stir."

But in the north the appeals of such Girondins as escaped from Paris were of no avail.

He Philip. was unable to avoid sending an army under Alva against Paul IV., and was glad to avail himself of the services of Venice to patch tip a peace.

The text of the treaty of Bretigny presented technical difficulties of which Charles was not slow to avail himself.

I have tried jeweler's rouge and a more abrasive cleaning product to no avail.

Witness tried artificial respiration for nearly an hour without avail.

Both Williams and Harcourt have been around for more than 5 years, touring the pants off Britain to only so much avail.

The images shown here, taken near Wrexham, does not avail us of the same solution.

But even if we were, it would n't avail us.

No chance of getting a new trial; no pleading will avail for that.

These cannot avail to vanquish the serried ranks of evil.

Bloody hell, they don't do that at the Ritz, as I told the barman but to no avail.

He has been taking natural yogurt and drinking chamomile tea for two weeks, but to no avail.