Definition of abate

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Abate (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates..

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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..
Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth..
Full :: Full (adv.) Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
Mortification :: Mortification (n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
Remission :: Remission (n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
Remit :: Remit (v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
Rebate :: Rebate (v. i.) To abate; to withdraw.
Relax :: Relax (n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors..
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..
Defalk :: Defalk (v. t.) To lop off; to abate.
Abater :: Abater (n.) One who, or that which, abates..
Cooler :: Cooler (n.) That which cools, or abates heat or excitement..
Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Abated :: Abated (imp. & p. p.) of Abat.
Abator :: Abator (n.) One who abates a nuisance.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets..
Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor..
Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.
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..
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.
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