Definition of abate

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

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Rabbate :: Rabbate (v. t.) To abate or diminish.
Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Full :: Full (adv.) Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price..
Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth..
Defalcation :: Defalcation (n.) A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.
Assuage :: Assuage (v. i.) To abate or subside.
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 allow by way of abatement or deduction.
Gore :: Gore (v.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point..
Slacken :: Slacken (v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
Diminuendo :: Diminuendo (adv.) In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign..
Rabbate :: Rabbate (n.) Abatement.
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..
Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
Batement :: Batement (n.) Abatement; diminution.
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..
Off :: Off (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off..
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