avile

English

Verb

avile (third-person singular simple present aviles, present participle aviling, simple past and past participle aviled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
    • 1610, Ben Jonson, Prince Henry's Barriers
      Want makes us know the price of what we avile.

References

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.