Abate Explained!!

Abate Explained!!

 

Abate

verb 

Meaning and Usage: 

• Diminished, Reduced, Lessen;
• To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity etc. 
• To deduct or subtract.
• To omit.
• Law: to end, null and void.

Tax abatement is used in the same way as tax relief.

A storm could abate or subside.

If something undesirable abates, it becomes less severe or strong. 

Other Forms:

• Abatement - noun 
• Abatable - adjective 
• Abater - law 
• Abator - noun 
• Unabate
• Unabated
• Unabatable - adjective
• Unabating - adjective 
• Unbatingly - adverb

Synonyms:

• Diminish
• Reduce
• Allay
• Decline
• Ebb
• Recede
• Subdue 
• Subside 
• Slacken 
• De-escalate
• Dwindle 
• Remit 
• Phase down 
• Shrink 
• Wane 
• Relent 

Antonyms:

• Enhance 
• Amplify 
• Enlarge 
• Prolong
• Intensify 
• Magnify 
• Increase
• Revive 
• Rise
• Accumulate
• Build 
• Escalate
• Pick up
• Burgeon 

Related Words:

• Dull
• Taper
• Unlax
• Moderate
• Quell
• Go with the flow
• Let it all hang out
• Mellow out
• Take it easy
• Abolish 
• Abrogate
• Annihilate 
• Eradicate
• Expunge
• Extinguish 
• Obliterate 

Rhymes:

• Approbate 
• Celibate 
• Reprobate
• Debate
• And anything that ends with "ate" or "ait" or "eight"
• Arete

Anagrams:

• No meaningful anagram. 

Origin:

Middle English (in the legal sense): from Old French abatre ‘to fell’, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + batre ‘to beat’ (from Latin battere, battuere ‘to beat’).

Sentences: 

1. Her stress over spending so much money on a house abated when the real estate brokers her about the property's 15-year tax abatement. 
2. But the colonel did not abate one whit of his craft or caution.
3. Naval activity in the northern waters of Europe did not abate.
4. She has two fits of fever daily; the disease doesn't abate. 
5. Nothing abated his crusading zeal. 
6. Energy efficiency might be the quickest way to abate emissions of carbon dioxide.
7. We waited for the wind to abate. 
8. I took Laura some homemade cookies, hoping to abate her sadness.
9. The crowd's roar began to abate after a few minutes of excitement.
10. A few weeks after their argument, Rachel and Eric's harsh feelings toward each other began to abate.
11. How can I cause feelings of doubt to abate and find confidence?
12. Losing a debate can often cause one's dignity to abate.
13. At about six, as the heat abated, people began to crowd the streets and marketplaces and to fill the cafés.
14. Many people say Conceptuality should abate the size of its blog post, but that's where it stands out. Jay believes in the inculcation of true information over click baits, for his readers.

So, What would you like to abate in your life? Which all qualities would you abate to reach success at a faster pace?

Write it down in the comments section below!! 

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