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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..

Batement :: Batement (n.) Abatement; diminution.

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

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

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

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)..

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

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..

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..

Allay :: Allay (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief..

Diabaterial :: Diabaterial (a.) Passing over the borders.

Quash :: Quash (v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment..

Cooler :: Cooler (n.) That which cools, or abates heat or excitement..

Lull :: Lull (v. i.) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls..

Defalk :: Defalk (v. t.) To lop off; to abate.

Abatable :: Abatable (a.) Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance..

Correction :: Correction (n.) Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach..

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

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