Dictionary Entry
bate
bate is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Strife; contention. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Strife; contention.
- 2transitive verb
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- 3transitive verb
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- 4transitive verb
To leave out; to except.
- 5transitive verb
To remove.
- 6transitive verb
To deprive of.
- 7intransitive verb
To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
- 8intransitive verb
To waste away.
- 9transitive verb
To attack; to bait.
- 10
imp. of Bite.
- 11intransitive verb
To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
- 12noun
See 2d Bath.
- 13noun
An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
- 14transitive verb
To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
- 15verb
soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments
"bate hides and skins"
- 16verb
flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons
- 17verb
moderate or restrain; lessen the force of
"He bated his breath when talking about this affair"
"capable of bating his enthusiasm"
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