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AVILE

Definition: AVILE

AVILE

Transitive verb

1. To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Avile \A*vile"\, transitive verb. [Old French expression aviler, French avilir; (L. ad) vil vile. See Vile.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: AVILE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Detraction

Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.

Disapprobation

Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AVILE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

avile

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: AVILE

Derivations

Words containing "AVILE": caviled, caviler, cavilers, outcaviled. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: AVILE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alive.

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

-1 letter: evil, ilea, lave, leva, live, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, vial, vile.

-2 letters: ail, ale, ave, lav, lea, lei, lev, lie, via, vie.

-3 letters: ae, ai, al, el, la, li.

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

+1 letter: alevin, alvine, eluvia, glaive, silvae, vagile, vailed, valine, valise, veinal, venial, viable, vialed, villae, vineal.

 

+2 letters: alevins, alveoli, anviled, availed, bivalve, caviled, caviler, clavier, devisal, elative, eluvial, estival, exuvial, flavine, glaived, glaives, heavily, javelin, leavier, leaving, livable, naively, prevail, ravelin, reavail, revisal, revival, rivaled, valeric, valines, valises, variole, vealier, vealing, vedalia, velaria, ventail, vesical, vexilla, vialled, vilayet, village, violate, virelai, virelay.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AVILE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 56 49 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010110 01001001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#86 &#73 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0056 0049 004C 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3556434639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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