Definition of "disavail" []

• To disadvantage or harm. (verb)
• To loose or stop using something. (verb)

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• "I (judging, if Au-strians, as I supposed they were, that plea would not disavail me): I am doubtful of my way."
• "Asian teachers tried to disavail people of the notion that an acid trip was enlightenment, and we nodded sagely."
• "The voice of the enthusiastic engineer, the pragmatic plant manager, and the ferverous farmer (I tried to find a corresponding "f" adjective for the noun, but to creative disavail)."