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abate

/uh-beyt/US // əˈbeɪt //UK // (əˈbeɪt) //

消减,削减,缩减,减轻

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verblessen, grow or cause to grow less
Forms: abated, abating

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.

  • He had a vanity easily lacerated, and he was now too savage to abate the ferocity of his forensic attack.

  • The Abate Ziak, both by precept and example, taught me to support my sufferings with calmness and resignation.

  • We were much hurt, but we obtained as his successor the Abate Ziak, another learned and worthy divine.