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AVAILED

Definition: AVAILED

AVAILED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Avail

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AVAILED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Crosswords: AVAILED

English words defined with "AVAILED": Audita querela, availTo avail one's self of. (references)
Specialty definitions using "AVAILED": Offa's DykeSpitting for Luck. (references)

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Use in Literature: AVAILED

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The public ministry of the time availed itself of this circumstance to show its indefatigable zeal for the defence of society.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

His prayers and fasts availed him little for the suppression of anger at hearing his mother sneeze or at being disturbed in his devotions.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: AVAILED

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Singapore

While speech topics are not required to be declared in advance, government regulations governing the Speakers' Corner state that, "the speech should not be religious in nature and should not have the potential to cause feelings of enmity, ill will, or hostility between different racial or religious groups." A variety of persons, including politicians, social activists, and ordinary citizens, availed themselves of the Speakers' Corner during the year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: AVAILED

"AVAILED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 56.00% of the time. "AVAILED" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)56%1493,893
Lexical Verb (past participle)44%11106,044
                    Total100.00%25N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AVAILED

Language Translations for "AVAILED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

运" (Availing, utilisation, utilise, utilised, utilization, utilize, utilized, Utilizing). (various references)

   

German

  

nützte (was of use). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

"모가 있". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

availeday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: AVAILED

Derivations

Words ending with "AVAILED": reavailed, travailed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"AVAILED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arveiler, avable, avaible, availa, availen, availer, Availeth, avaline, aviler, Avilez, awailed, Kavalek, vailed, Vasilev. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "AVAILED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "AVAILED" (pronounced uvā"ld)
4-v ā" l dprevailed, unveiled, veiled.
3-ā" l dassailed, bailed, curtailed, derailed, detailed, entailed, exhaled, failed, hailed, impaled, inhaled, jailed, mailed, nailed, paled, railed, regaled, sailed, scaled, tailed, trailed, wailed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: AVAILED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: vedalia.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-v"

-1 letter: vailed, vialed.

-2 letters: ailed, alive, avail, devil, ideal, laved, lived, valid.

-3 letters: aide, alae, avid, dale, deal, deil, deli, deva, dial, diel, diva, dive, evil, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lava, lave, lead, leva, lied, live, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, veld, vial, vide, vied, vile.

-4 letters: aal, aid, ail, ala, ale, ava, ave.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-v"
 

+1 letter: validate, vedalias.

 

+2 letters: adverbial, advisable, avoidable, laudative, mediaeval, reavailed, salivated, travailed, validated, validates, vandalise, vandalize.

 

+3 letters: adaptively, adenoviral, adjectival, adverbials, alleviated, cavaliered, galivanted, galvanised, galvanized, invalidate, mediaevals, revalidate, vacillated, vandalised, vandalises, vandalized, vandalizes.

 

+4 letters: adventitial, adverbially, adversarial, advertorial, declarative, devaluating, devaluation, disavowable, gallivanted, inadvisable, invalidated, invalidates, maladaptive, revalidated, revalidates, unavoidable.

 

+5 letters: adjectivally, advertorials, antediluvian, derivational, devaluations, maladjustive, misevaluated, quadrivalent, revalidating, revalidation, unalleviated, valetudinary, vaudevillian.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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