Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To come down; fall.
- To descend; dismount.
- To lower; uncover; take off, as a vizor or hood.
- To let down; lower, as a sail; cause to descend: as, “hath his saile avaled,” Gower, Conf. Amant., viii.
- To make low or abject; depress; degrade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.
- verb obsolete To bring low; to abase.
- verb (v. i.), obsolete To descend; to fall; to dismount.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To cause to
descend ; tolower ; to letfall ; todoff . - verb transitive, obsolete To bring low; to
abase . - verb intransitive, obsolete To descend; to fall; to
dismount .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wud be kindness tu maekz teh fums avale able tu teh kittehz?
No one had the heart to tell - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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TechCrunch en français » EA avale le site de Karaoke SingShot
SingShot Enters Online Karaoke Space Michael Arrington 2005
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The women, generally married at fifteen, were old at thirty, and such was the intensity of life in this "water-logged town" -- as F. Hopkinson Smith somewhat irreverently called it upon one occasion -- that a traveller was led to remark: _On ne goûte pas ses plaisirs, on les avale.
Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901
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Then the judge was much abashed, and commanded to take quick lime and vinegar meddled together, and made it to avale into his throat, and after did do put out his eyes.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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M. M.rmontel, who made his acquaintance in 1832, represents him as a worn-out, vulgar-looking man of fifty, whose outward appearance contrasted painfully with his artistic performances, and whose heavy, thick-set form in conjunction with the delicacy and dreaminess of his musical thoughts and execution called to mind Rossini's saying of a celebrated singer, "Elle a l'air d'un elephant qui aurait avale un rossignol."
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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_On ne goute pas ses plaisirs icy, on les avale_ [Footnote: They do not taste their pleasures here, they swallow them whole.], said Madame la
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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Le jeu de l’actrice est aussi motivé psychologiquement, par des situations et des actions qui précèdent ou sont simultanés avec l’émission de la parole (l’actrice joue le moment d’ivresse ou elle avale des pilules, essaye de se pende, d’ouvrir ses veines, de tailler ses bras avant qu’elle va parler de ces choses).
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5 But when his latter spring begins to avale, latter > last, final spring > tide avale > sink down, flow down
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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"avale tous profits que la compagnie peut faire dans le futur".
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"avale tous profits que la compagnie peut faire dans le futur".
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