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Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a)..

Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.

Remit :: Remit (v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.

Discount :: Discount (v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills..

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To abate; to become less violent.

Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower..

Abate :: Abate (n.) Abatement.

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit..

Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.

Alloy :: Alloy (v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes..

Quell :: Quell (v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.

Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..

Assuagement :: Assuagement (n.) Mitigation; abatement.

Abater :: Abater (n.) One who, or that which, abates..

Gore :: Gore (v.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point..

Remit :: Remit (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits..

Subsidence :: Subside (v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided..

Remission :: Remission (n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

Bateless :: Bateless (a.) Not to be abated.

Defalcation :: Defalcation (n.) A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.

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