Definition of abate

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Abate (v. t.) To blunt.

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Cooler :: Cooler (n.) That which cools, or abates heat or excitement..
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To abate; to become less violent.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates..
Rabbate :: Rabbate (v. t.) To abate or diminish.
Rebate :: Rebate (n.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties..
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..
Gusset :: Gusset (n.) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset..
Rabbate :: Rabbate (n.) Abatement.
Assuage :: Assuage (v. i.) To abate or subside.
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..
Allow :: Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Abatement :: Abatement (n.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.
Subsidence :: Subside (v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided..
Remission :: Remission (n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
Allowance :: Allowance (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth..
Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower..
Abated :: Abated (imp. & p. p.) of Abat.
Discount :: Discount (v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills..
Defalcation :: Defalcation (n.) A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.
Correction :: Correction (n.) Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach..
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