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English
Verb
avile (third-person singular simple present aviles, present participle aviling, simple past and past participle aviled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
1610, Ben Jonson, Prince Henry's Barriers:Want makes us know the price of what we avile.
References
- “avile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avile”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
Spanish
Verb
avile
- inflection of avilar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative