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avale

avale verb: to cause to descend; to lower; to let fall.

Verb

avale (third-person singular simple present avales, present participle avaling, simple past and past participle avaled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To bring low; to abase.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
    • And from their sweaty courses did avale.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 8

Forms of avale

third-person singular presentavales
present participleavaling
past participleavaled
pastavaled

Origin of avale

From Middle English avalen, from Old French avaler (“to descend”), a univerbation of a val (“to the valley”).

Questions about avale

What does avale mean?
Avale means to cause to descend; to lower; to let fall.
What part of speech is avale?
Avale is a verb.
What is the past tense of avale?
The past tense of avale is avaled.

Words near avale in the dictionary

  1. avalanchelike
  2. avalanches
  3. avalanching
  4. avaldar
  5. avaldars
  6. avale
  7. avaled
  8. avalement
  9. avalements
  10. avalent
  11. avales

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