Word Finder - abating

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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.

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To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.

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Anesis.

Meanwhile France provided Italy with fresh cause for uneasiness by abating her hostility to Germany.

Hence he appears to have encouraged agriculture by abating the tax on small farms, and even by assisting them with money and stock.

In 1757 Voltaire came to reside at Lausanne; and although he took but little notice of the young Englishman of twenty, who eagerly sought and easily obtained an introduction, the establishment of the theatre at Monrepos, where the brilliant versifier himself declaimed before select audiences his own productions on the stage, had no small influence in fortifying Gibbon's taste for the French theatre, and in at the same time abating that "idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman."

He informed Dean the climbers, who were due to check out later, had left for the ice park, grumbling at the heavy accumulation of snow which was abating to a last-ditch flurry after depositing thirty inches of fluffy white.

The heat of controversy is, however, abating, and during the past thirty or forty years both Catholic and Protestant investigators have been vying with one another in adding to our knowledge and in rectifying old mis takes; while an ever-increasing number of writers pledged to neither party are aiding in developing an idea of the scope and nature of the Reformation which differs radically from the traditional one.

His prince, abating those points which are purely Italian or strongly tinctured with the author's personal peculiarities, prefigured the monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries, the monarchs whose motto was L'e'tat c' est moil His doctrine of a national militia foreshadowed the system which has given strength in arms to France and Germany.

He is described by Fuller as "low of stature, little in bulk, cheerful in countenance (wherein gravity and quickness were all compounded), of a sharp and piercing eye, clear judgment and (abating the influence of age) term memory."

By an audacious fraud that represented him as an enemy, and Polk as a friend of protection, Clay lost the vote of Pennsylvania; and he lost the vote of New York by his own letter abating the force of his previous opposition to the annexation of Texas.

The internecine strife between Lewis aficionados about the order of the Narnia books shows no signs of abating.