abate
消减,削减,缩减,减轻
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Definitions
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a·bat·ed, a·bat·ing.
- : to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax;to abate one's enthusiasm.
- : Law. to put an end to or suppress.to suspend or extinguish.to annul.
- : to deduct or subtract: to abate part of the cost.
- : to omit: to abate all mention of names.
- : to remove, as in stone carving, or hammer down, as in metalwork, in order to produce a figure or pattern in low relief.
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a·bat·ed, a·bat·ing.
- : to diminish in intensity, violence, amount, etc.: The storm has abated.The pain in his shoulder finally abated.
- : Law. to end; become null and void.
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Examples
Some reforms, such as government reimbursement of telehealth consultations, may be reversed when the crisis abates.
Targeted adjustments, elbows, needles, and electrotherapy abated the pain for a day or two at most.
The political crisis in Ethiopia is not showing signs of abating.
Producers say the company’s initial arrogance has abated as its strategy appears to be shifting from mobile-only unicorn to table-stakes streamer.
That interest eventually abated as buyers stockpiled enough programming to fill their pipelines for a time.
Some express a feeling of hopelessness and that their intractable sadness will never abate.
That modern science has repeatedly affirmed their findings does little to abate the continuing doubt.
Perhaps, under different circumstances, with other kinds of modern Jewish women, their anger might start to abate.
To abate the overload, The Daily Beast created its first list of the best destinations on the Web.
He noted that the worst of the storm had passed, and the accompanying record surge would abate with the tide.
It is therefore our duty, sir, to protect our principal, and we cannot consent to abate one jot or tittle of our rights.
An appeal by a member of a subordinate lodge from a vote of expulsion does not abate by his death while the appeal is pending.