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Full :: Full (adv.) Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets..

Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

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

Compromise :: Compromise (n.) A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement..

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

Qualify :: Qualify (v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors..

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

Tare :: Tare (n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc..

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..

Abator :: Abator (n.) One who abates a nuisance.

Rigorous :: Rigorous (a.) Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration..

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.

Besayle :: Besayle (n.) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished..

Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

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

Rabbate :: Rabbate (n.) Abatement.

Relax :: Relax (v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

Rabbate :: Rabbate (v. t.) To abate or diminish.

Let-up :: Let-up (n.) Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up..

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