Definition of abate

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Abate (v. t.) 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..

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Remedial :: Remedial (a.) Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment..
Defalcation :: Defalcation (n.) That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated..
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price..
Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease..
Abator :: Abator (n.) One who abates a nuisance.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To blunt.
Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..
Abate :: Abate (n.) Abatement.
Addition :: Addition (n.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement..
Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Lull :: Lull (v. i.) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls..
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 bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ..
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..
Assuagement :: Assuagement (n.) Mitigation; abatement.
Quash :: Quash (v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment..
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets..
Concoction :: Concoction (n.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition..
Slake :: Slake (v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.
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