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# avail

«avail» in Mova's school dictionary: **use or help: «of no avail» means it did not help at all** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (no plural); verb (avails, availed, availing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) Avail means use or help: «of no avail» means it did not help at all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avail/#m1)

2) (verb, formal) To avail is to be of use or to help someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avail/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a plea, a fight or a plan that brings no use or help: it was of no avail.

### examples

- All our shouting was of no avail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avail/#x1)
- The medicine did not avail him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avail/#x2)
- That will avail him little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avail/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.958/)
- [Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.93/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «avail» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avail/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.