Abate

v. t.	1.	To beat down; to overthrow. [imp. & p. p. Abated, p. pr. & vb. n. Abating.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. - Edw. Hall.
	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. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. - Deut. xxxiv. 7.
	3.	To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. - Fuller.
	4.	To blunt. To abate the edge of envy. - Bacon.
	5.	To reduce in estimation; to deprive. She hath abated me of half my train. - Shak.
	6.	(Law) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. To abate a tax to remit it either wholly or in part.
v. i.	1.	To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. - Macaulay.
	2.	To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate into a freehold (Law) to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.
n.	1.	Abatement.

Verb	1.	abate - make less active or intense Synonyms: slake, slack
	2.	abate - become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours" Synonyms: die away, let up, slack off, slack

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