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v. i.
To abate; to become less decided.
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.
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.
n.
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
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).
a.
To abate; to become less violent.
n.
One who, or that which, abates.
v. t.
To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
n.
An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.
v. t.
To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
a.
Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
n.
Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Abate
n.
The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
v. t.
To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
v. t.
To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
v. t.
To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
n.
Abatement.
v. t.
To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.
v. t.
To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
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