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adiantar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • advance verb To move forward, or to help something make progress.
  • avail verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
  • hasten verb To move or act quickly, or to make something happen sooner.
  • predate verb To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)

Senses

adiantar is used for these senses in English:

  • advance To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend. [from 16th c.]
  • avail (intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
  • hasten (transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
  • move forward (transitive, figurative) To cause to make progress.
  • put forward (idiomatic, transitive) To change the time in a time zone to a later time.

advance — full definition

  1. verb To move forward, or to help something make progress.
  2. verb To give money before it is normally due.
  3. noun Forward movement or progress, or money paid before it is due.
  4. adj Happening or done ahead of time.

avail — full definition

  1. verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
  2. noun Use or benefit, especially in the phrase "to no avail," meaning without success.

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