ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (poetry) humbled.
  2. (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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