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abated 音标拼音: [əb'etɪd] Abate \ A* bate"\ ([. a]* b[= a] t"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Abated}, p. pr. & vb. n. { Abating}.] [ OF. abatre to beat down, F. abattre, LL. abatere; ab or ad batere, battere ( popular form for L. batuere to beat). Cf. { Bate}, { Batter}.] 1. To beat down; to overthrow. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. -- Edw. Hall. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. -- Deut. xxxiv. 7. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. [ 1913 Webster] Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To blunt. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] To abate the edge of envy. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To reduce in estimation; to deprive. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] She hath abated me of half my train. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Law) ( a) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. ( b) ( Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. [ 1913 Webster] { To abate a tax}, to remit it either wholly or in part. [ 1913 Webster] |
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