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Meanings of abate in English

Portuguese
desprover
Catalan
debilitar
Spanish
aflojar

Become less in amount or intensity.

        desprover

        To make smaller.

              To take one thing from another.

                    Usage of abate in English
                    1
                    Keon said outflows should abate after the regulations take effect next week.
                    Reuters
                    2
                    He said they had hoped violence between Jews and Arabs would abate.
                    Reuters
                    3
                    It will eventually abate. Matt Mira: That is a very interesting point.
                    Wired
                    4
                    And the very day the vow was made the epidemic did abate.
                    The Excellence of the Rosary / Conferences for Devotions in Hono...
                    5
                    But about the middle of the eighteenth century it began to abate.
                    The Eve of the French Revolution
                    6
                    Unsurprisingly perhaps, the domestic wars between my parents were slow to abate.
                    The Irish Times
                    7
                    Her presence was a charm to abate the violence of the hurricane.
                    The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
                    8
                    Strange to say, it did not abate even the romance of it.
                    Devereux — Volume 03
                    9
                    When he arrived in Chongno Samga again his pain did not abate.
                    Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
                    10
                    He waits for the applause to abate, soaking up the hall's energy.
                    The Irish Times
                    11
                    Eventually, after hours that felt like days, the storm began to abate.
                    Fears Unnamed
                    12
                    Neither Mul-tal-la nor the brothers would abate one bit of their claims.
                    Deerfoot in The Mountains
                    13
                    Pretty soon after we struck the storm seemed to abate a little.
                    The Junior Classics, Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
                    14
                    Nor did my terrors abate till after the king had quittedme
                    Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry / With Minute Details of Her En...
                    15
                    The abbe was warned of this, but nothing could abate his zeal.
                    Massacres of the South (1551-1815) / Celebrated Crimes
                    16
                    His creditor, feeling that it was just, declined to abate the amount.
                    The Wonders of Prayer / A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonde...
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