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Assuagement :: Assuagement (n.) Mitigation; abatement.

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

Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease..

Rabate :: Rabate (v.) To recover to the fist, as a hawk..

Rabbate :: Rabbate (n.) Abatement.

Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower..

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..

Batement :: Batement (n.) Abatement; diminution.

Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

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

Alloy :: Alloy (v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes..

Diminuendo :: Diminuendo (adv.) In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign..

Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever..

Addition :: Addition (n.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement..

Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a)..

Relent :: Relent (v. t.) To slacken; to abate.

Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic..

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

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

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..

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