Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Injury; Lydgate.
- To injure; prejudice.
- To avail; help.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
disadvantage orharm . - verb To
loose orstop using something.
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Examples
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I (judging, if Au-strians, as I supposed they were, that plea would not disavail me): I am doubtful of my way.
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Asian teachers tried to disavail people of the notion that an acid trip was enlightenment, and we nodded sagely.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lewis Richmond 2011
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The voice of the enthusiastic engineer, the pragmatic plant manager, and the ferverous farmer (I tried to find a corresponding "f" adjective for the noun, but to creative disavail).
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