Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make vile; treat as vile; depreciate; debase.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
abase ordebase ; tovilify ; todepreciate .
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Examples
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"Say, holdt on avile und led me ged a few pullets indo you, mein friendts."
Frank Merriwell Down South Burt L. Standish 1905
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But only vait avile: in six veeks I can bring any voman in England on her knees to me and you shall see vat I vill do vid my
Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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But only vait avile: in six veeks I can bring any voman in England on her knees to me and you shall see vat I vill do vid my Morgiana.”
Mens Wives 2006
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Uf he don'd peen aroundt here der next dime, I don'd know der kindt uv a feller vot he vos peen yet avile. "
Frank Merriwell's Chums Burt L. Standish 1905
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"You peen bitten all der dime dose cendibedes py, und I pet me my poots you don'd keep very sdill yet avile!
Frank Merriwell's Chums Burt L. Standish 1905
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