avile

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avile (third-person singular simple present aviles, present participle aviling, simple past and past participle aviled)

  1. (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.

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avile

  1. inflection of avilar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative