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

Allay :: Allay (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.

Quell :: Quell (v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.

Gore :: Gore (v.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point..

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

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever..

Concoction :: Concoction (n.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition..

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..

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.

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 (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..

Remit :: Remit (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits..

Abator :: Abator (n.) One who abates a nuisance.

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

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

Rebate :: Rebate (v. i.) To abate; to withdraw.

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..

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)..

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..

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..

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