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Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.

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

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..

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..

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

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates..

Rebate :: Rebate (n.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties..

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

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

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

Aslake :: Aslake (v. t. & i.) To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish.

Abated :: Abated (imp. & p. p.) of Abat.

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

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price..

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

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ..

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

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

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

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