Словарь английских синонимов и синонимичных выражений. Том I. A – I. - страница 43

Avails, n. pl. Proceeds, profits, returns.

Available, a. 1. To be availed of, to be turned to account.

2. Serviceable, useful, profitable, advantageous, beneficial.

3. Suitable or fit (for some purpose), likely to answer the end.

Avant-courier, n. Harbinger, forerunner, herald.

Avant-guard, n. Van, advanced guard.

Avarice, n. Penuriousness, cupidity, niggardliness, closeness, covetousness.

Avaricious, a. Miserly, penurious, parsimonious, sordid, illiberal, niggardly, mercenary, close, stingy, mean, grasping, close-fisted, hard-fisted, covetous, eager for gain (for the sake of hoarding it).

Avast, interj. (Naut.) Hold, stop, stay, enough.

Avaunt, interj. Hence, begone, be off, get you gone.

Avenge, v. a. 1. Take satisfaction for, award just punishment for.

2. Revenge, vindicate (by punishment of an offender), inflict punishment in behalf of.

3. [So used by the translators of the Bible.] Take revenge upon, treat revengefully.

Avengement, n. [Rare.] Avenging.

Avenue, n. 1. Passage, entrance, entry, access, way of approach, passage-way.

2. Alley, walk, street, road, path.

3. Channel, route, way, pass.

Aver, v. a. Assert, affirm, declare, asseverate, protest, avouch, allege, say, pronounce, predicate.

Average, n. 1. Medium, mean proportion, medial sum or quantity.

2. Mediocrity, medial standard, average standard.

Average, v. a. 1. Equate, reduce to an average, reduce to a mean.

2. (Com.) Proportion, distribute proportionally.

Average, v. n. Amount to, or result in, when the mean is taken.

Average, a. 1. Medial, mean.

2. Middling, ordinary, passable, moderate, tolerable, well enough, pretty well, not bad.

Averment, n. Affirmation, declaration, assertion, remark, asseveration, protestation, avowal, word.

Avernus, n. (Mythol.) Hell, Tartarus, Hades, Erebus, the lower world, the infernal regions, shades below.

Averse, a. Unwilling, disinclined, indisposed, reluctant, loath, backward, adverse, opposed.

Aversion, n. 1. Dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, reluctance, unwillingness, repugnance, backwardness.

2. Antipathy, hatred, loathing, disgust, nausea, detestation, abhorrence, horror.

Avert, v. a. 1. Turn aside, turn away, turn off.

2. Prevent, divert, preclude, forefend, ward off, keep off.

Avid, a. [Rare.] Eager, greedy.

Avidity, n. 1. Eagerness, longing, yearning, intense desire.

2. Greediness, craving, voracity, rapacity, voraciousness, ravenousness, canine appetite.

Avocation, n. Occasional business (business that calls aside).

Avoid, v. a. 1. Shun (in a negative sense, or denoting care only without positive exertion), eschew, escape, blink, elude, keep away from, keep aloof from, keep out of the way of, withdraw from, keep clear of, be shy of, fight shy of, have nothing to do with.

2. Forbear, help, refrain from.

Avoset, n. Scooper.

Avouch, v. a. Affirm, assert, asseverate, declare, protest, allege, say, maintain.

Avow, v. a. Acknowledge, confess, own, profess, declare, affirm.

Avowal, n. Acknowledgment, confession, declaration, profession, manifesto.

Await, v. a. 1. Expect, abide, wait for, stay for, look for, be in readiness for.

2. Attend, be in store for, be prepared for, be ready for.

Awake, a. 1. Not asleep.

2. Attentive, watchful, vigilant, alive, on the alert.

Awake, v. a. &n. Awaken.

Awaken, v. a. 1. Awake, wake, rouse from sleep.

2. Arouse, excite, kindle, spur, incite, stimulate, provoke, stir up.