noun
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Abatement.
verb
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(obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
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to abate a nuisance
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To become null and void.
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The writ has abated.
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To nullify; make void.
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to abate a writ
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To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
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To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
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To curtail; to deprive.
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Order restrictions and prohibitions to abate an emergency situation.
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To reduce in amount, size, or value.
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Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
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To decrease in size, value, or amount.
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To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
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To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
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To deduct or omit.
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We will abate this price from the total.
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To bar or except.
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To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
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To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
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To destroy, or level to the ground.
Examples of abate in a Sentence
In an hour or so the storm would abate and they could leave.
I took Laura some homemade cookies, hoping to abate her sadness.
Taking pain medicine can cause headaches to abate.
The crowd's roar began to abate after a few minutes of excitement.
How can I cause feelings of doubt to abate and find confidence?
Gradually the fear began to abate.
Losing a debate can often cause one's dignity to abate.
A few weeks after their argument, Rachel and Eric's harsh feelings toward each other began to abate.
After a few hours of providing heat, the fire's bright flames began to abate.
As autumn grew nearer, the summer storms began to abate.
Sarah couldn't wait for the blistering temperatures of August to abate.
Could you abate the temperature of the oven so the pie doesn't burn?
Your cravings for sugary foods will soon abate.
The storm raged on around them and finally began to abate.
Your body will recover fairly quickly from nicotine withdrawals (the worst symptoms usually abate in three days or less ), 19.
Let them not straiten their desire, nor abate their trust, nor abandon their dependence, nor stint their song.
Some people live such tension-filled lives that the stress hormones rarely abate, which takes a tremendous toll on their brains.
To help abate this problem, you can ask the sleep study center for testimonials.
Landing at Hamburg in the January following, he spent some time there in the company of his friends Madame de Geniis and Reinhard; and when party rancour continued to abate at Paris, he returned thither in September.
If the person on whom the notice is served objects to give effect to it, he may be summoned before justices, and the justices may make an order upon him to abate the nuisance, or prohibiting the recurrence of the nuisance if this is likely, and directing the execution of the necessary works.
Your baby may experience teething pain, and while, this will be uncomfortable for you both, it will abate in time.
You should discuss this option with your vet, but understand that she may be reluctant to abate with the yearly schedule.
In spite of this peace the disorder in Athens did not abate.
Loisy's lines; "L' Abate Loisy e it Problema dei Vangeli Sinottici," four long papers signed "H," in Il Rinnovamento (Milan, 1908, 1909) are candid and circumspect.
He did not abate his activity, however, and the Peace Congress which assembled at Washington on the 4th of February 1861, pursuant to a resolution of the Virginia legislature, and over which he presided, was largely the result of his labours.
Like the name Abate, "white," given them in Kororofa, all these seem to refer to their light reddish hue.
Riven by conflict that is now destructive, or which is simply foced underground, the noise at last begins to abate.
Your body will recover fairly quickly from nicotine withdrawals (the worst symptoms usually abate in three days or less), 19.
Simon is lucky to have such dynamos working for the Ride in the USA along with ABATE of Illinois South Suburban Chapter.
Where this approach fails we can serve a notice on the offending party requiring them to abate the nuisance.
To him was indirectly due, in the main, that troubling of the Realistic waters which resulted in so many modifications of the original thesis; and his own somewhat eclectic ruling on the question in debate came to be tacitly accepted in the schools, as the ardour of the disputants began to abate after the middle of the century.
If the person who causes the nuisance cannot be found, and it is clear that the nuisance does not arise or continue by the act, default or sufferance of the owner or occupier of the premises, the local authority may themselves abate the nuisance without further order.
As a young abate he had followed the fashion of writing verses, and to the end he remained a notable patron of the arts and sciences, music being his main passion.