Definition of abate

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Abate (v. t.) To blunt.

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Alloy :: Alloy (v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes..
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..
Bateless :: Bateless (a.) Not to be abated.
Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic..
Aslake :: Aslake (v. t. & i.) To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish.
Let-up :: Let-up (n.) Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up..
Defalk :: Defalk (v. t.) To lop off; to abate.
Deduction :: Deduction (n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent..
Quell :: Quell (v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.
Rabate :: Rabate (v.) To recover to the fist, as a hawk..
Remission :: Remission (n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement..
Relent :: Relent (v. t.) To slacken; to abate.
Rabbate :: Rabbate (n.) Abatement.
Addition :: Addition (n.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement..
Abatement :: Abatement (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.
Abatable :: Abatable (a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance..
Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
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)..
Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.
Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage..
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