avail
利用,使用,充分利用
Related Words
Definitions
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- : to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
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- : to be of use; have force or efficacy; serve; help: His strength did not avail against the hostile onslaught.
- : to be of value or profit.
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- : advantage; use; efficacy; effective use in the achievement of a goal or objective: His belated help will be of little or no avail.
- : avails, Archaic. profits or proceeds.
Phrases
- avail oneself of
- to no avail
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Over the past month, Fuller reached out to several Nationals super fans on social media in search of the ticket, to no avail.
I have tried to discuss this matter with him, but to no avail.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked people not to travel for Thanksgiving, to avoid juicing infection rates, to little avail.
Several member states reportedly tried to swap the order of speakers to address the lack of women on Day 1, but to no avail.
What some politicians and activists had long sought to do to no avail — place working parents and their child care crisis on the center stage of American politics — the virus has done in a matter of months.
According to the friend, Brinsley rang his ex-girlfriend, an Air Force reservist named Shaneka Thompson, to no avail.
The left had long tried to resist it through a diverse mix of organizations, devoted to different goals, and all to no avail.
Women have been trying to wield Internet shame against men for years now to little avail.
In Germany, sex workers get to avail themselves of the same social-welfare infrastructure as all other German workers.
This woke her husband, who questioned and tried to console her, to no avail.
But such refuge, he knew, could avail him nothing if the bear should scent him out and search for him.