Abated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈbeɪtɪd/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Abated is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of abate.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of abate.
More Meanings
- (poetry) humbled.
- (decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.
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Related Words
Related dictionary entries include subsiding, decreasing, stopped, dropped, regressed, fallen.
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