avail
verb
[ əˈveɪl ]
• help or benefit.
• "no amount of struggle availed Charles"
• use or take advantage of (an opportunity or available resource).
• "you can avail discounts on food"
Similar:
use,
make use of,
take advantage of,
utilize,
employ,
resort to,
have recourse to,
turn to,
look to,
avail
noun
• use or benefit.
• "he begged her to reconsider, but to no avail"
Similar:
in vain,
without success,
unsuccessfully,
vainly,
with no result,
fruitlessly,
to no purpose,
for nothing,
bootlessly,
Origin:
Middle English: from obsolete vail ‘be of use or value’ (apparently on the pattern of pairs such as amount, mount ), from Old French valoir, from Latin valere ‘be strong, be of value’.
