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Definitions: Abate |
AbateVerb1. Make less active or intense. 2. Become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
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Literature | Abate (2 syl.) means properly to knock down. (French, abattre, whence a battue, i.e., wholesale destruction of game; O.E. a beátan.) Abate, in horsemanship, is to perform well the downward motion. A horse is said to abate when, working upon curvets, he puts or beats down both his hind legs to the ground at once, and keeps exact time. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Public Administration | To diminish, lessen the violence(e. g. of a storm), to weaken the effect(e. g. of flooding), to decrease an amount of substance(e. g. of pollutant in the atmosphere), to mitigate; The name of a well known insecticide used in mosquito control. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: AbateSynonyms: die away (v), let up (v), slack (v), slack off (v), slake (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discount | Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax. |
Nonincrease, Decrease | Bate, abate, dequantitate; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n. |
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Crosswords: Abate |
| English words defined with "abate": Abated, Aslake ♦ Defalk, Diminishing stile ♦ Pleas in suspension ♦ Rabbate, Remittent fever ♦ To abate a tax, To give in, To reduce a square, To strike sail ♦ Weak. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abate": Exclusive Flood Control Storage Capacity ♦ Flood Control Storage ♦ hybrid cooling tower, hybrid wet-dry cooling tower ♦ respite ♦ United States Environmental Protection Agency ♦ wetdry tower. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "abate": Abattoir ♦ Rabate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Abate" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (abbas, Abbe, abbot), Romanian (abbot, call away, deflect, distract, divert, straggle, stray, swerve, turn), Spanish (abbe, abbot). |
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John Locke | 1690 | He that shall oppose an assault only with a shield to receive the blows, or in any more respectful posture, without a sword in his hand, to abate the confidence and force of the assailant, will quickly be at an end of his resistance, and will find such a defence serve only to draw on himself the worse usage. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Health | Stopping the medication or lowering the dosage causes the symptoms to abate. (references) | |
These agents, however, should be used only temporarily for relief of the acute symptoms and should be withdrawn when these symptoms abate. (references) | ||
If a baby or young child is experiencing symptoms of lactose intolerance, many pediatricians simply recommend changing from cow's milk to soy formula and waiting for symptoms to abate. (references) | ||
Business | The Greenhouse Challenge, launched in 1995, is a joint voluntary initiative between the national government and industry to abate greenhouse gas emissions. (references) | |
Under this initiative, participating companies sign agreements with the Government that provide a framework for reporting on actions undertaken to abate emissions. (references) | ||
Economic History | Indonesia | The revised FY 2001 budget anticipates a deficit equal to at least 3.7 percent of GDP, and even if inflationary pressures abate, the GOI lacks the financing options to pursue a more expansionary fiscal policy. (references) |
Hungary | Gero called on Soviet troops to restore order on October 24. Fighting did not abate until the Central Committee named Imre Nagy as prime minister on October 25, and the next day Janos Kadar replaced Gero as party first secretary. (references) | |
Human Rights | Fiji | Authorities hoped that with a new Government, increased funding, and the formation of a police union, corruption among the police will abate. (references) |
Political Economy | UKRAINE | With the onset of economic growth in 2000, however, pressure on the hryvnia began to abate and the currency largely stabilized. (references) |
Colombia | The Colombian Government has adopted laws and implemented reforms in the judiciary, police and military to abate human rights problems. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation. Altgeld upon his incandescend bed Lay, an attendant demon at his head. "O cruel cook, pray grant me some relief -- Some respite from the roast, however brief." "Remember how on earth I pardoned all Your friends in Illinois when held in thrall." "Unhappy soul! for that alone you squirm O'er fire unquenched, a never-dying worm. "Yet, for I pity your uneasy state, Your doom I'll mollify and pains abate. "Naught, for a season, shall your comfort mar, Not even the memory of who you are." Throughout eternal space dread silence fell; Heaven trembled as Compassion entered Hell. "As long, sweet demon, let my respite be As, governing down here, I'd respite thee." "As long, poor soul, as any of the pack You thrust from jail consumed in getting back." A genial chill affected Altgeld's hide While they were turning him on t'other side. Joel Spate Woop |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The need for a program to help low-income households with rising energy expenses will not abate in the near future. |
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| "Abate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 93.85% of the time. "Abate" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 93.85% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "abate" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Abate | Last name | 1,000 | 15,286 |
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Expressions using "abate": To abate a tax ♦ To abate in lands ♦ To abate into a freehold. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abate | 339 |
abate indiana | 110 |
abate pa | 84 |
abate iowa | 82 |
john abate | 40 |
abate illinois | 33 |
abate michigan | 26 |
abate ohio | 24 |
abate wisconsin | 24 |
abate colorado | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "abate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | verminder (abridge, decrease, diminish, drop, fall, lessen). (various references) | |
Albanian | anuloj (abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, set aside, void, withdraw), zvogëloj (belittle, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, make smaller, minimize, mitigate, qualify, rebate, reduce, relax, relieve, scale down, slacken, take away, take in, take up, understate), qetësohem (blow out, calm down, cool down, cool off, die down, grow quiet, heal, rage, settle down, simmer down, subside), pakësoj (abridge, curtail, cut down, deflate, degrade, diminish, lessen, lower, narrow, pare, razee, reduce, retrench, slacken, understate, vitiate), i jap fund (break up, close, cut, discontinue, disestablish, dissolve, end, finish, kill, overthrow, quench, stop), heq (abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), bie (attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble). (various references) | |
Arabic | خفف هدأ, إنحسر (recede). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отслабям (cripple, depauperate, ease, loosen, reduce, relax, remit, shake, weaken, wear down), отслабвам (become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, become weak, diminish, languish, lose weight, moderate, sag, slim, thin, weaken, wind down, wither), отменям (abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, disaffirm, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, supersede, undo, wash out, withdraw), намалявам (abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), анулирам (abrogate, annul, avoid, blank, countermand, disannul, invalidate, negate, nullify, quash, recall, repeal, rescind, revoke, unmake, write off), понижавам (abase, degrade, demote, disgrace, flatten, impair, lower, reduce, relegate, sing flat, whittle away). (various references) | |
Chinese | 消退 (Abated, Abating, subside, Subsided, subsiding). (various references) | |
Czech | zmenšit se (fall off, get small, shrink), zmenšit (deplete, diminish, lessen, reduce, scale down, weaken, whittle away), snížit (bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, debase, decrease, deplete, diminish, drop, knock, lessen, lop off, pull down, put down, reduce, whittle away), omezit (circumscribe, confine, constrict, curb, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, deflate, limit, narrow, prune, restrict, retrench, scale down, terminate, trammel). (various references) | |
Danish | aftage (subside), Abate, temephos (temephos), reducere, nedsætte. (various references) | |
Dutch | luwen (subside, weaken), gaan liggen (lie down, settle, subside), bekoelen (cool, cool down, subside), bedaren (appease, calm, calm down, quiet, soothe, still, subside), afnemen (abstract, buy, clear away, decline, decrease, diminish, drop, equalize, fall, flatten, purchase, remove the cloth, settle, smooth, subside, take away, take over, wane). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malpliigi (abridge, decrease, lessen), malpliiĝi (decrease, diminish, drop, fall), malplifortiĝi (settle), malkreski (decrease, diminish), malfortiĝi (weaken), kvietiĝi (subside). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرونشستن (Sag, Slake, Subside), فروکش کردن (Ebb, Lower, Subside), کم شدن (Diminish, Dwindle, Slacken, Wane), کاهش (Decline, Decrease, Diminution, Rebate, Reduction, Scaledown, Slake, Wastage), کاستن (Decline, Decrease, Detract, Discount, Drawoff, Lessen, Lighten, Pare, Rebate, Shorten, Soften, Subtract), غصب یاتصرف عدوانی , تنزل (Decadence, Decay, Depreciation, Depression, Setback), تخفیف دادن (Alight, Assuage, Bate, Discount, Extenuate, Lower, Mitigate, Relieve), رفع نمودن , بزورتصرف کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | vähentää (attenuate, curtail, cut, decrease, deduct, detract from, diminish, lessen, reduce, subtract, take from, take off), temefossi (temefos, temephos), lieventää (allay, mitigate, reduce, relax, relieve). (various references) | |
French | se calmer, diminuer (abridge), amoindrir (abridge). (various references) | |
Frisian | ferswakje (settle), ôfslaan (abase, aberrate, decrease, discount, lower, rebate, reduce the price, reject, turn). (various references) | |
German | nachlassen (abatement, bequeath, decrease, deteriorate, die away, die down, dim, diminish, discount, drop, ease, ease off, ease up, fade, fail, failure, fall, flag, go, intermit, knock off, lessen, letup, loosen, moderate, rebate, reduce, relax, relaxation, relent, remit, respite, sink, slack off, slacken, slacken off, softening, subside, tail off, take off, to abandon ship, to abate, to carry easy sail, to ease up, to go easy, to intermit, to slacken, wane, waver, weaken, wear off), verringern (allay, bate, decrease, diminish, ease, extenuate, lessen, lower, reduce, scale down, slacken, thin, to abate, to allay, to bate, to reduce, weaken), abflauen (abatement, drop, fade, flag, sag, slack off, slacken, slacken off, subside, tail off, wane, wanes, wilt). (various references) | |
Greek | κοπάζω (blow over, die down, subside), μειώνω (abridge, bring down to, cut back on, decrease, deescalate, deplete, derogate from, detract, diminish, lessen, reduce, understate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשכך (assuage, lull, mollify, pacify, quell, soothe, still, subside), ל"קטין (decrease, detract, diminish, lessen, reduce, scale down), ל"פחית (abridge, cut down, decrease, devaluate, diminish, lower, reduce, remit, step down, subtract, take away), ל"חליש (attenuate, deaden, detach, enervate, enfeeble, impair, slacken, weaken, wear down). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csökkent (alleviate, attenuate, cut, cut back, decrease, diminish, look down, lower, mitigate, reduce, reduced, remit, step down, to abate, to abridge, to ax, to curtail, to cut back, to cut down, to deflate, to depress, to derogate, to ease, to ease down, to lessen, to lower, to pare down, to pull in, to put down, to reduce, to release, to send down, to slack, to slacken, to step down, tone down, understate), érvénytelenít (abrogate, annul, call off, cancel, disannul, invalidate, nullify, quash, rescind, to annul, to frustrate, to infirm, to invalidate, to nullify, to overrule, to rescind, to set aside, to toll, to vitiate, to void, void). (various references) | |
Icelandic | niðurlægja (abase, decrease, lower). (various references) | |
Indonesian | meredakan (assuage), menenangkan (allay, assuage, comfort, tranquillize). (various references) | |
Italian | diminuire (Bate, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall, go, go down, lessen, reduce, reduction, relax, remit, sag, slacken, slump, wane, weaken, worsen), ridurre (abandon ship, abbreviate, abridge, adapt, Bate, be reduced, bring down, curtail, cut, cut down, decrease, depress, drive, pare down, prune, rebate, reduce, reduce oneself, remit, shorten, shrink, turn into). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 衰える (to, to abate, to become weak, to decline, to wear), 冷める (to abate, to become cool, to subside, to wear off). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おとろえる (to abate, to become weak, to decay, to decline, to waste away, to wear, to wither), しずまる (to abate, to be suppressed, to calm down, to die down, to quieten down, to subside), さがる (to abate, to fall, to hang down, to retire, to step back), さめる (to abate, to awake, to become cool, to come down, to come to one's senses, to cool down, to dampen, to discolour, to fade, to get sober, to subside, to wake, to wake up, to wear off), よわまる (to abate, to be dejected, to be emaciated, to be perplexed, to weaken), へらす (to abate, to decrease, to diminish, to shorten), へる (to abate, to decrease, to diminish, to elapse, to experience, to pass). (various references) | |
Manx | tuittym (befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), traih (abatement, decrement, diminish, efflux, flow away, flow out, go down, go off, low water, make, make of ebb, ooze away, sink, subside, subsidence), lhaggaghey (abatement, bate, depress, dim, drop away, ease, ease off, fade, fade out, flag, mitigate; flagging, mitigation, reduce, reduction, relax, relaxation, write down). (various references) | |
Norwegian | forminske (abridge, decrease, diminish, lessen). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | diminuir (abridge, assuage, attenuate, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dyad, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, mince, minify, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, Whittle). (various references) | |
Romanian | alina (allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, lighten, lull, mitigate, palliate, relieve, set in a row, solace, soothe, stop, temper), anula (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, discharge, dissolve, negate, negative, nullify, overrule, quash, recall, remit, render null, repeal, rescind, reverse, undo, vacate, vitiate), atenua (alleviate, attenuate, dilute, diminish, dull, extenuate, gloze, mellow, reduce, soften, subdue, subjugate, tone down, water down), abroga (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, nullify, remit, repeal, rescind, revoke), opri (abstain, arrest, balk, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, curb, cut off, deflate, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, halt, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, quench, restrain, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, strangle, subside, taboo, withhold), coborî (alight, bring low, climb down, come down, couch, cut, debase, decline, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, lower, move down, reduce, suppress), descreşte (Bate, decline, decrease, dewindle, diminish, fall, fall off, flag, grow, lessen, shorten, sink, subside, wane), linişti (appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, cease, comfort, compose, ease, hush, mitigate, mollify, pacify, quiet, quieten, reassure, recompose, rest, salve, serene, settle, smooth, smooth down, soothe, still), ogoi (allay, assuage, hush, pacify, soothe, subside), slãbi (attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), pune capãt la (cut, determine, make an end of, put an end to), reduce (abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), scãdea (abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), se atenua (dull, soften), se diminua (decrease, diminish, dwindle, fall away), se domoli (ease, flatten, lull, quiet down, relent, slacken, soften, swoon), se potoli (burn down, calm, dampen, die away, fall, flatten, lull, quiet, remit, settle, smooth down, soften, subside), micşora (abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away). (various references) | |
Russian | уменьшать (decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, lessen, minify, narrow down, reduce, relieve, remit, retrench, scale down, shrinks, take off, throttle back). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stišati se (die down, quiet down), sniziti (demote, humble, knock down, lower), smanjiti se (drop off, fall off), smanjiti (curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, diminish, downsize, lessen, mitigate, pare down, rebate, reduce, slash, whittle away, whittle down). (various references) | |
Spanish | disminuir (assuage, attenuate, curtail, cut down, damp, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, drop off, fall, fall away, fall off, lighten, like, lower, put down, reduce, relieve, subside, weaken), menguar (bind off, decrease, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fall, lessen, reduce, shorten, subside, wane), decrecer (decrease, diminish, drop, ease off, fall, lose weight, sink, slim, take away), calmarse (blow over, calm down, cool down, die down, drop, ease, quieten, settle down, simmer down, sober down, subside), amainar (decrease, diminish, drop, ease, fall, shorten, weaken), sosegarse (calm down, die down, quiet, subside), bajar (abase, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references) | |
Swedish | minska (allay, curtail, decrease, degrade, descend, detract from, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall off, fine away, fine down, go down, lapse, lessen, let up, lower, put down, reduce, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, step down, subside, wane), lindra (alleviate, appease, assuage, ease, mitigate, palliate, physic, relieve, salve, soothe), avta (decrease, diminish, drop off, ease, ebb, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, slacken, tail away, wane). (various references) | |
Turkish | azaltmak (alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), azalmak (be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decline, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, dive, drop off, dwindle, ease off, fall away, fall off, lessen, run short of, run short of smth., sag, scale down, shorten, shrink, sink, tail, wane, wear away), yatıştırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, comfort, compose, conciliate, defuse, disarm, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, remit, salve, sedate, settle, smooth down, smother up, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), yürürlükten kaldırmak (abrogate, dismantle, legislate away, repeal, rescind, revoke), hafiflemek (become lighter, ease off, settle, sink, slow down, wear off), geçmek (adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), dindirmek (alleviate, assuage, attemper, ease, kill, quench, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, soothe, stop, suppress). (various references) | |
Ukranian | стримувати (bound, bridle, chasten, check, coerce, constrain, contain, control, curb, deter, dominate, hold in, inhibit, moderate, pocket, rein, restrain, stay, stop, suppress, swaddle, swallow, temper), скорочувати (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, blue pencil, boil down, cancel, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink), скасовувати (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, disaffirm, disestablish, negative, nullify, repeal, rescind, withdraw), слабшати (ebb, fall, impair, pink in, sink, slack, wane, weaken), відміняти (abolish, abrogate, avoid, bar, defeat, negative, nullify, rescind, revoke, vacate), вщухати, ослабляти (allay, attenuate, deaden, debilitate, depress, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, let down, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken), знижувати (bring down, невимушенІсть [f], degrade, depress, discount, lower, put down, reduce, send down, take from), зменшуватися (decline, decrease, dispeople, drop across, drop off, ease, ease off, fall off, turn down), зменшувати (allay, alleviate, ax, axe, belittle, cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, dwindle, extenuate, lessen, minify, palliate, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away), заспокоюватися (calm down, hush, pacify, settle down, simmer down, soften, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), анулювати (abrogate, annul, avoid, bar, cancel, defeat, disannul, elide, null, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, undo, wash out, withdraw), припиняти (adjourn, cease, desist, discontinue, end, give over, leave off, nip, stash, stop, surcease). (various references) | |
Welsh | lleihau (attenuate, decrease, diminish, lessen), gostwng (abase, bow, humble, lower, put down, reduce), gostegu (quell, silence, still). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ad, cadam, cadamus, cadant, cadas, cadat, cadatis, cadebant, cadebat, cadens, cadensque, cadent, cadentes, cadentesque, cadentibusque, cadere, caderem, caderent, caderet, cades, cadet, cadetis, cadit, cadite, cadunt, ceciderant, ceciderat, ceciderint, ceciderit, cecideritque, ceciderunt, cecideruntque, cecidi, cecidimus, cecidisse, cecidissent, cecidisset, cecidisti, cecidit, ceciditque, decrescebant, decrescens, decreta, decreti, decretis, decreto, decretum, decreveram, decreverat, decreverunt, decreveruntque, decrevi, decrevimus, decrevit, decrevitque, frixit, lenieris, lenietur, lenior, lenirent, lenis, minuas, minue, minuentur, minuere, minues, minuetis, minuetur, minui, minuisti, minuit, minuitur, minuta, minutis, minutum, remittere, reside, residebant, residens, resident, residentes, residentibus, residere, supercecidit. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | abattre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai dia to plhqunqhnai thn anomian yughsetai h agaph twn pollwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et quoniam abundabit iniquitas refrigescet caritas multorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & for-þam þe unrihtwysnesse rixað manegera lufe äcolað. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And for wickidnesse schal `be plenteuouse, the charite of manye schal wexe coold; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And because iniquite shall have the vpper hande the love of many shall abate. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And because iniquity will abound, the love of many will become cold. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 12 |
| Bulgarian | Но понеже ще се умножи беззаконието, любовта на мнозинството ще охладнее. |
| Cebuano | Ug kay mosanay man ang kadautan, mobugnaw ang gugma sa kadaghanan. |
| Chinese | 只 不 法 的 事 增 多 、 許 多 人 的 愛 心 、 " 漸 漸 冷 淡 了 。 |
| Croatian | Razmahat æe se bezakonje i ohladnjeti ljubav mnogih. |
| Danish | Og fordi Lovløsheden bliver mangfoldig, vil Kærligheden blive kold hos de fleste. |
| Dutch | En omdat de ongerechtigheid vermenigvuldigd zal worden, zo zal de liefde van velen verkouden. |
| Finnish | Ja sentähden, että laittomuus pääsee valtaan, kylmenee useimpien rakkaus. |
| French | Et, parce que l`iniquité se sera accrue, la charité du plus grand nombre se refroidira. |
| German | und dieweil die Ungerechtigkeit wird überhandnehmen, wird die Liebe in vielen erkalten. |
| Haitian Creole | Ap sitèlman gen mechanste sou latè, pifò moun yonn p'ap renmen lòt. |
| Hungarian | És mivelhogy a gonoszság megsokasodik, a szeretet sokakban meghidegül. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kejahatan akan menjalar sebegitu hebat sampai banyak orang tidak dapat lagi mengasihi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan sebab makin bertambah dosa, maka kasih orang banyak tawarlah kelak. |
| Italian | per il dilagare dell'iniquit , l'amore di molti si raffredder . |
| Korean | 불 법 이 성 하 므 로 많 은 사 람 의 사 랑 이 식 어 지 리 라 |
| Latvian | Un tâpçc mîlestîba daudzos atdzisîs, jo netaisnîba bûs pârpilnîbâ. |
| Manx Gaelic | As er-yn-oyr dy jean olkys bishaghey, nee graih-ghiastyllagh ymmodee feayraghey. |
| Maori | A, i te kino ka hua, ka matoke haere te aroha o te tini tangata. |
| Modern Greek | και επειδη θελει πληθυνθη η ανομια, η αγαπη των πολλων θελει ψυχρανθη. |
| Norwegian | Og fordi urettferdigheten tar overhånd, skal kjærligheten bli kold hos de fleste. |
| Portuguese | e, por se multiplicar a iniquidade, o amor de muitos esfriará. |
| Rumanian | Wi, din pricina knmulyirii fqrqdelegii, dragostea celor mai mulyi se va rqci. |
| Russian | Й, П ТЙЮЙОЕ ХНОПЦЕОЙС 'ЕЪЪБЛПОЙС, ЧП НОПЗЙИ ПИМБ"ЕЕФ МА'ПЧШ; |
| Shuar | Tura Tunáa ti ákui nuamtak anenaichartatui. |
| Spanish | y por haberse multiplicado la maldad, se enfriará el amor de muchos. |
| Swahili | Kwa sababu ya ongezeko la uhalifu, upendo wa watu wengi utafifia. |
| Swedish | Och därigenom att laglösheten förökas, skall kärleken hos de flesta kallna. |
| Thai | ความรักของคนเป็นอันมากจะเยือกเย็นลง เพราะความชั่วช้าจะแผ่กว้างออกไป |
| Ukrainian | І через розріст беззаконства любов багатьох охолоне. |
| Uma | Nto'u toe, kada'aa tauna katedoo-donihia, duu' -na mere' -mi ahi' tauna to wori'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abate": abated, abatement, abatements, abater, abaters, abates. (additional references) | |
Words containing "abate": unabated, unabatedly. (additional references) | |
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"Abate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aata, abace, Abada, abade, abadeh, Abadi, Abado, abae, abait, abaite, abale, abane, Abare, Abarew, abast, Abasto, abat, abatar, abath, abati, Abbat, abctg, abeat, Abebe, Abeche, abeet, aberate, abeta, abete, abiet, abire, abitibi, abito, abowte, absat, Absa'tze, abste, abte, abuti, adate, afate, albate, Amate, amati, Ambato, anate, apate, arate, Arbatov, arbete, atabe, Atabey, avante, avat, avate, ayat, Azato, Babauta, Bawaeth, dabate, gabakt, Kabarti, Mabote, Masbate, mawatte, Nabataea, nabataen, nabatean, obate, Rabatou, Sabato, Sabbatai. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "abate" (pronounced ubā"t) |
| 4 | u b ā" t | debate. |
| 3 | -b ā" t | bait, Bate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-t" | |
-1 letter: abet, bate, beat, beta. | |
-2 letters: aba, ate, baa, bat, bet, eat, eta, tab, tae, tea. | |
-3 letters: aa, ab, ae, at, ba, be, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-t" | |
+1 letter: abated, abater, abates, ablate, bateau, bemata. | |
+2 letters: abaters, abettal, abeyant, ablated, ablates, abreact, abreast, actable, antbear, baccate, barbate, bateaux, batteau, bearcat, cabaret, datable, eatable, hatable, labiate, ratable, tabaret, tableau, takable, tamable, taxable. | |
+3 letters: abatable, abatises, abdicate, aberrant, abettals, ablative, ablegate, abnegate, aboiteau, abreacts, abrogate, acerbate, agitable, alphabet, ambulate, antbears, arbalest, arboreta, arbutean, atonable, aubretia, aubrieta, baccated, backbeat, backdate, backseat, bacteria, bakemeat, baldpate, barathea, bareboat, barrater, basaltes, batteaux, bearcats, beatable, betrayal, blastema, boatable, bracteal, bregmata, cabarets, cabotage, cabresta, cabretta, cartable, castable, crabmeat, database, dateable, deadbeat, eatables, entameba, glabrate, hateable, heatable, labiated, labiates, lambaste, makebate, meatball, rateable, rateably, ratsbane, sabotage, satiable, statable, tabarded, tabarets, tableaus, tableaux, tabulate, takeable, talkable, tameable, tannable, tastable, taxables, teaboard, tearable, trabeate, tradable, unabated, wastable. | |
+4 letters: abasement, abashment, abatement, abattises, abdicated, abdicates, aberrants, aberrated, ablatives, ablegates, abnegated, abnegates, abnegator, aboiteaus, aboiteaux, abominate, abreacted, abrogated, abrogates, abstained, abstainer, acerbated, acerbates, acetabula, adaptable, adoptable, adsorbate, adumbrate, aerobatic, alabaster, alphabets, alterable, alterably, ambulated, ambulates, approbate, arbalests, arbitrage, arbitrate, ascorbate, astrolabe, aubretias, aubrietas, auditable, bacchante, backbeats, backdated, backdates, backseats, backstage, backwater, bacterial, bacterias, bagatelle, bakemeats, baldpates, ballasted, ballistae, baratheas, bareboats, barraters, basipetal, bastinade, bathwater, beanstalk, betrayals, bilabiate, bilateral, bivariate, blastemal, blastemas, blastulae, brachiate, bracteate, breakfast, cabaletta, cabotages, cabrestas, cabrettas, calibrate, cantabile, capablest, carbamate, carbonate, carpetbag, catchable, crabmeats, databases, deadbeats, debatable, dilatable, draftable, elaborate, entamebae, entamebas, entamoeba, exactable, fabricate, fatigable, getatable, grantable, habitable, habituate, hatchable, heartbeat, lambasted, lambastes, locatable, makebates, matchable, meatballs, palatable, plantable, rabbinate, ratsbanes, relatable, rotatable, sabotaged, sabotages, saturable, sauceboat, stableman, stackable, stageable, stainable, stateable, stealable, steamboat, sweatband, tablature, tableland, tablemate, tableware, tabulated, tabulates, teaboards, teachable, teachably, trabeated, trabecula, traceable, tractable, tradeable, trainable, treatable, twayblade, unactable, uneatable, untamable, watchable, whaleboat. | |
+5 letters: abacterial, abasements, abashments, abatements, abbreviate, aberrantly, aberration, ablatively, abnegating, abnegation, abnegators, abominated, abominates, abreacting, abreaction, abstainers, abstracted, abstracter, acceptable, acceptably, acerbating, acetabular, acetabulum, actionable, adjustable, adsorbates, adumbrated, adumbrates, aerobatics, affectable, alabasters, algebraist, alphabeted, alphabetic, ambivalent, ameloblast, analphabet, antirabies, approbated, approbates, arbitrable, arbitraged, arbitrager, arbitrages, arbitrated, arbitrates, arborvitae, ascorbates, astrolabes, attachable, attainable, autobahnen, bacchantes, backwaters, bacteremia, bagatelles, balustrade, banalities, bandmaster, bardolater, baronetage, barratries, basketball, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, bastinades, bathwaters, beanstalks, beautician, bequeathal, biparental, bitartrate, blackheart, blackwater, blastemata, blatancies, brachiated, brachiates, breakfasts, breakwater, breathable, bureaucrat, cabalettas, calibrated, calibrates, carbamates, carbonated, carbonates, carpetbags, catabolite, catabolize, chalybeate, charitable, chelatable, detachable, detachably, elaborated, elaborates, entamoebae, entamoebas, exacerbate, fabricated, fabricates, factorable, fastballer, fathomable, flabellate, habilitate, habituated, habituates, handbasket, heartbeats, heartbreak, inflatable, insatiable, interabang, isolatable, lamentable, lamentably, marketable, masturbate, metastable, metastably, mistakable, nontaxable, obtainable, outbalance, paddleboat, pasteboard, patentable, portabella, rabbinates, repeatable, sailboater, sauceboats, skateboard, stablemate, statutable, steamboats, sweatbands, tabernacle, tablatures, tablelands, tablemates, tablewares, talebearer, targetable, tenantable, threadbare, titratable, trabeation, trabeculae, trabecular, trabeculas, twayblades, unabatedly, unbeatable, unbeatably, watchables, whaleboats. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... .- - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3568678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Bible Trace 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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