(To decrease subside decline)
Example: After the storm the wind abated, The price was abated.
ENGLISH MEANING
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To beat down; to overthrow.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
- 6.
- (TRANSITIVE) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
- 7.
- (TRANSITIVE) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
- 8.
- (TRANSITIVE) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
