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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive, obsolete, outside, legal) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
- (intransitive, legal) To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
- (intransitive) To become null and void.
- (transitive, legal) To nullify; make void.
- (transitive, obsolete) To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
- (transitive, obsolete) To curtail; to deprive.
- (transitive) To reduce in amount, size, or value.
- (intransitive) To decrease in size, value, or amount.
- (transitive) To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
- (intransitive) To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
- (transitive) To deduct or omit.
- (transitive) To bar or except.
- (transitive) To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
- (transitive, obsolete) To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
- (transitive, archaic) To destroy, or level to the ground.
Substantiv
- An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.
- Abatement.
Exempel
- to abate a nuisance
- The writ has abated.
- to abate a writ
- The hyer that they were in this present lyf, the moore shulle they be abated and defouled in helle.
- Order restrictions and prohibitions to abate an emergency situation.
- She hath abated me of half my train.
- Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
- His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
- Not that they feel it so, but only to abate the edge of envy.
- The fury of Glengarry[...] rapidly abated.
- [...] in the morning, the wind having abated overnight, the sea was calm, [...]
- We will abate this price from the total.
- Allowing nine thousand parishes (abating the odd hundreds) in England and Wales [...]
- Abating his brutality, he was a very good master.
- The kynge of Scottes planted his siege before the castell of Norham, and sore abated the walls.
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