Definition of "availed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of avail. (verb)

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• "To be precise the word availed means that they gave me, for reasonable sums of money, what the Law says is entirely legal—“hand relief.”"
• "Gin availed himself of one of the comfortable seats that were available in the reception, and waited whilst the receptionist spoke quickly and quietly into a phone."
• "But this great ally chanced to be out of town, and his name availed Maitland nothing in his interview with the Juge d'Instruction."