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abate English

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abate

When something abates, it grows less. The storm abated. To abate something means to make it less or put an end to it. The medicine abated his pain.

abate

(= let up) become less in amount or intensity The storm abated The rain let up after a few hours (= slake) make less active or intense

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abate · verb

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Simple sentences

The heat won't abate.
The storm didn't abate for several hours.

Movie subtitles

Ah! Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage!
At 4:00 at the Abate Station.
Rich man marries, him abate.
An oath of mickle might, and fury shall abate.
I put you out to let the effects of the psychosis abate.
I say there has never been a better time to abate the French pride.
Weary night, abate thy hours. steal me awhile from my own company.
Abate Luigi. - And you? - Zotta Arturo.
Of course, I could stay here a while longer. and let my confusion abate.
I cannot abate the overload.
Except for some physical issues I thought would abate over time.
In the next couple of weeks the pain should abate, then one more operation.
Her fever does not abate.
At 4:00 at the Abate Station. I'll be there.
Looks like they're going to abate five lira of taxes per liter.
There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
There live within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
But this may abate. We'd like to help you. to control the pain.
I'm hoping once you reap the endorphic rewards of the steady clickety-clack of steel wheels on polished rails, your sour disposition will abate. Yeah, maybe.
Consumes it with a burning flame that does not abate.
I'm on it! Flames abate, says the man Zezelryck.
Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage.
Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage!
I don't know how, when we unanimously decided to abate fund for presentations?
A sense of humor. In the next couple of weeks the pain should abate, then one more operation.
Abate thy hour!
I'm hoping once you reap the endorphic rewards of the steady clickety-clack of steel wheels on polished rails, your sour disposition will abate.
I have unleashed a raging shit storm of epic proportions on the board of trustees of that pissant school that will not abate until those girls seek enrollment elsewhere.
I wonder, then, how you refuse a service which might, in some degree, abate it.

News and current affairs

That depends on when you think the financial crisis will abate, and the timing of that is as hard to predict as exchange rates.
Corruption will abate, and the rule of law take hold, only when the West holds Russia to global standards.
It took between five and ten years for this effect to abate.
This fundamental debate is not about to abate.
That will be a matter of opinion until the recession begins to abate; the truth is that we don't yet know whether this crisis will be a snowball that grows layer by layer or an avalanche that sweeps away entire industries.
Nevertheless, the crisis should abate somewhat, because the most risk-averse institutions have by now sold their holdings of peripheral countries' sovereign debt.
Extremism based on a perversion of Islam shows no sign of abating; indeed, it will not abate until it is taken on religiously, as well as by security measures.
Until then, it seems well worth pursuing efforts that would help to abate the carnage.
They won't abate.

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