Avails
[ә'veils]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Proceeds, profits, returns.
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Examples
- What avails it to me that you do not reproach me, if I so bitterly reproach myself! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What now avails all my toil and labour in amassing honey-dew on this leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And what avails repeating this so often? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Silence, maiden, answered the Templar; such discourse now avails but little. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But thou, wounded as thou art, what avails it thou shouldst follow the steps of him whom thou couldst not aid, were he to be assaulted? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And what now avails rant or flattery? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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