availing

Verb

Present participle of avail.
I'm availing myself of the opportunity.

Adjective

(comparative more availing, superlative most availing)

Efficacious.

Noun

(dated) Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use
Any use would probably be an availing of the protection afforded by the passport.

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Now it held about two dozen people, some climbers preparing their equipment and photographers availing themselves of the excellent location where they could look straight down on the climbers below them.
Internal troubles prevented them from availing themselves completely of their victory.
With these allies, and availing himself of the advantages offered by the inundation of the Nile, al-Kamil was able to cut off both the advance and the retreat of the invaders, and on the 31st of August 1221 a peace was concluded, by which the Franks evacuated Egypt.
At the elections for the local bodies the Catholics had already been permitted to vote, and, availing themselves of the privilege, they gained seats in many municipal councils and obtained the majority in some.
Availing himself of the favourable moment, he obtained the enactment of the fundamental law of the 17th of December 1819, by which the republics of Venezuela and New Granada were henceforth to be united in a single state, under his presidency, by the title of the Republic of Colombia.

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