avale

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verb

To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall

OriginMiddle English avalen ← Old French avaler →
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Meanings

verbavale (third-person singular simple present avales, present participle avaling, simple past and past participle avaled)

present singular third person avales · participle present avaling · participle past avaled · past avaled

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo bring low; to abase.
  3. intransitiveobsoleteTo descend; to fall; to dismount.

    And from their sweaty courses did avale.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 8

Origin

  1. Old Frenchavaler“to descend”
  2. Middle Englishavalen
  3. Englishavale

From Middle English avalen, from Old French avaler (“to descend”), a univerbation of a val (“to the valley”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “avale,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avale.

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