avale

See also: avalé

English

Etymology

From French avaler (to descend, to let down)

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To bring low; to abase.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto IX,VIII.
      And from their sweaty courses did avale.

References

  • avale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Verb

avale

  1. first-person singular present indicative of avaler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of avaler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of avaler
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of avaler
  5. second-person singular imperative of avaler

Spanish

Verb

avale

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of avalar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of avalar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of avalar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of avalar.
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