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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Abate \A*bate"\ ([.a]*b[=a]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abated}, p. pr & vb n. {Abating}.] [OF. abatre to beat down F. abattre LL abatere ab or ad + batere battere (popular form for L. batuere to beat). Cf {Bate}, {Batter}.] 1. To beat down to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. --Edw. Hall. 2. To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. --Deut. xxxiv 7. 3. To deduct; to omit; as to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. --Fuller. 4. To blunt. [Obs.] To abate the edge of envy. --Bacon. 5. To reduce in estimation; to deprive. [Obs.] She hath abated me of half my train. --Shak. 6. (Law) a To bring entirely down or put an end to to do away with as to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. b (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. {To abate a tax}, to remit it either wholly or in part From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: abating adj : decreasing in amount or intensity [syn: {subsiding}]
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