Bate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /beɪt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bate is a verb meaning (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
Meaning
(transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
- To waste away.
- To deprive of.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
Example Sentences
Bate (I beſeech you) widdow Dido.
When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake; […]
[…] and to his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story of the stroke with the willow wand.
Bate the King, and be he fleſh and blood, / He lyes that ſaies it, thy mother at fifteen / Was black and ſinful to her.
Word Forms
- bates
- bating
- bated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include reduce, diminish, moderate, smith, abate, rebate.
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