These are the meanings of the letters DAECAVN when you unscramble them.
            
                
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                    Advance (a.)
                    
                        Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for   advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body   of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance   proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in   advance of the time of publication.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v.)
                    
                        A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received   (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment   beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied   beforehand.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v.)
                    
                        An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an   advance on the prime cost of goods.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v.)
                    
                        Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally,   or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an   advance in rank or office.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v.)
                    
                        The act of advancing or moving forward or upward;   progress.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v.)
                    
                        The first step towards the attainment of a result;   approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a   difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the   plural.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. i.)
                    
                        To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to   advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. i.)
                    
                        To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to   greet me.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. i.)
                    
                        To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be   preferred or promoted.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. t.)
                    
                        To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to   forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening   of fruit; to advance one's interests.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. t.)
                    
                        To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to   make to go on.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. t.)
                    
                        To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to   show; as, to advance an argument.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. t.)
                    
                        To extol; to laud.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. t.)
                    
                        To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes   due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant   advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. t.)
                    
                        To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. t.)
                    
                        To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in   rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. t.)
                    
                        To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
                    
                 
                
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                    Advance (v. t.)
                    
                        To raise; to elevate.