Dictionary Entry
avail
avail is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To promote; to assist.
- 3intransitive verb
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.
- 4noun
Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
- 5noun
Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
- 6transitive/intransitive verb
See Avale.
- 7noun
a means of serving
"of no avail"
"there's no help for it"
- 8verb
use to one's advantage
"He availed himself of the available resources"
- 9verb
take or use
"She helped herself to some of the office supplies"
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- 10verb
be of use to, be useful to
"It will avail them to dispose of their booty"
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