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From Old French abatre "to beat down", from Late Latin abatere, formed from ab- or ad- + battere, from Latin battuere "to beat".

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Infinitive
to abate

Third person singular
abates

Simple past
abated

Past participle
abated

Present participle
abating

to abate (third-person singular simple present abates, present participle abating, simple past and past participle abated)

  1. (transitive) To bring down or reduce to a lower state, number, degree or estimation; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short.
    Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
    • 1605: She hath abated me of half my train — William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.ii
    • 1611: His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. — Deuteronomy 34:7
    • To abate the edge of envy. - Francis Bacon
  2. (transitive) To bring down (a person) physically or mentally; to humble; to depress.
  3. (intransitive) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; to experience a diminution of force or of intensity.
    The pain abates.
    The storm abated.
    • The fury of Glengarry ... rapidly abated. - Thomas Macaulay
  4. (transitive) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate some amount from a price or count.
    • Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. - Fuller
  5. (transitive) To bar; to except.
  6. (transitive) (obsolete except in law) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; to destroy; to level with the ground.
    To abate a nuisance.
    To abate a writ.
    • The King of Scots ... sore abated the walls. - Edward Hall
  7. (intransitive) To be defeated or come to naught; to fall through; to fail.
    The writ has abated.

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to bring down a person physically or mentally
to bring down or reduce to a lower state
to decrease or become less
to beat down
to deduct
to bar, to except
to blunt
to reduce in estimation
to bring entirely down or put an end to
to diminish, to reduce
to be defeated

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[edit] Noun

Singular
abate

Plural
abates

abate (plural abates)

  1. (obsolete) abatement. - Sir T. Browne

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From Italian abate

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Singular
abate

Plural
abates

abate (plural abates)

  1. An Italian abbot.

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abate m. (plural abati)

  1. abbot

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abate

  1. abbot or abbess

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from Italian abate

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abate m., pl. abaţi

  1. abbot.
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