OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 24294

unavailing

Meanings (ES + gloss)
fútil • infructuoso • inservible • inútil • ocioso
Fruitless, futile, useless.
During the next ten years, efforts to secure support for extending the railway south of Hawick were unavailing.
The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to…
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