Bated

a.

1.

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.

Adj.	1.	bated - held back; "we watched the daring feats of the acrobats with bated breath"
	2.	bated - diminished or moderated; "our bated enthusiasm"; "his bated hopes"

abated, ablated, attenuated, belittled, consumed, contracted, curtailed, damped, dampened, dead, deadened, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, dropped, dull, dulled, eroded, fallen, flat, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, muffled, muted, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, smothered, softened, sordo, stifled, subdued, watered-down, weakened, worn