avail

avail has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"
• v.. use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources"
• v.. take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"
• v.. be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty"