Why this word is great
AVALE — [Verb] To cause to descend; to lower or let fall. From Middle English avalen, from Old French avaler ("to descend"), a univerbation of a val ("to the valley"). Unlike "descend" (which implies a natural or gradual movement downward) or "abase" (which focuses on humiliation), "avale" carries the weight of deliberate action—a rope uncoiling into a well, a drawbridge groaning to meet the moat, or a soldier kneeling to lay a fallen comrade into the earth. It is the quiet violence of gravity made intentional, the hand that decides when the fall must begin.