abate

abate

abate (third-person singular simple present abates, present participle abating, simple past and past participle abated)

1. (transitive) To bring down or reduce to a lower state, number, degree or estimation.

   Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.

   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels, Civil and Morall:

     Not that they feel it so, but only to abate the edge of envy.

   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.ii:

     She hath abated me of half my train

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Deuteronomy 34:7

     His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

2. (intransitive) To diminish in force or intensity.

   The pain abates.

   Order restrictions and prohibitions to abate an emergency situation.

   • c. 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:

     […] in the morning, the wind having abated overnight, the sea was calm, […]

   • 1855, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England from the Accession of James II, Part 3, page 267:

     The fury of Glengarry […] rapidly abated.

3. (transitive) To deduct or omit.

   We will abate this price from the total.

   • 1845, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, Volume 3, page 100:

     Allowing nine thousand parishes (abating the odd hundreds) in England and Wales […]

4. (transitive) To bar or except.
5. (transitive) To bring someone down physically or mentally.
6. (transitive, law) To put an end to; to do away with.

   to abate a nuisance

   to abate a writ

7. (intransitive, law) To be defeated or come to naught.

   The writ has abated.

8. (archaic) To destroy, or level to the ground
   • 1542, Edward Hall, The Union of the Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and York:

     The kynge of Scottes planted his siege before the castell of Norham, and sore abated the walls.

abate (plural abates)

1. (obsolete) abatement. - Sir Thomas Browne

	diminuire
	To make smaller.

annullare

	detrarre
	Sottrarre una parte da una quantità più grande.
	To take one thing from another.

abbassare

abbassarsi

abolire

ammortire

arrestare

calmare

calmarsi

cassare

cessare

demolire

fermare

finire

interrompere

menomare

ribassare

ridurre

rilassare

scemare

terminare

Altri significati:

decrease (in size or number)

(transitive) To bring down or reduce to a lower state, number, degree or estimation.

to bar, to except

to decrease or become less in strength

(intransitive, law) To be defeated or come to naught.

obsolete: to bring entirely down or put an end to

to be defeated

(archaic) To destroy, or level to the ground

(transitive) To bring someone down physically or mentally.

to bring down or reduce to a lower state

cool down (interest)

to deduct, to omit

(intransitive) To diminish in force or intensity.

An Italian abbot.

(transitive, law) To put an end to; to do away with.

(transitive) To deduct or omit.

(transitive) To bar or except.

to bring down a person physically or mentally

(obsolete) abatement. - Sir Thomas Browne

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