Dictionary Entry
abate
abate is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To beat down; to overthrow. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To beat down; to overthrow.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
- 4transitive verb
To blunt.
- 5transitive verb
To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
- 6transitive verb
To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
- 7transitive verb
To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
- 8transitive verb
To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
- 9transitive verb
To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
- 10noun
Abatement.
- 11verb
become less in amount or intensity
"The storm abated"
"The rain let up after a few hours"
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- 12verb
make less active or intense
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