abatemeaning

Something that abates becomes fewer or less intense. Your enthusiasm for skiing might abate after falling off a ski lift and getting a mouthful of snow.

abate, subside, wane, ebb mean to die down in force or intensity. abate stresses the idea of progressive diminishing.

to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax;to abate one's enthusiasm.

1. to make less in amount, degree, force, etc. 2. to deduct.

4 天前 — The brisk counterpoint and stern tone abates only briefly towards the end, for a moment of hymn-like unity on the words 'be pious, be wise'.

Her suffering abated insofar as the framework of self against which illness is experienced and understood disintegrated. From the Cambridge English Corpus. We ...

​to become less intense or severe; to make something less intense or severe. The storm showed no signs of abating. They waited for the crowd's fury to abate ...

4 天前 — to become less strong, or to make something less strong: Our desire for consumer goods has not abated.

4 天前 — to become less strong: The storm/wind/rain has started to abate. The fighting in the area ...

to become less strong, or to make something less strong: Our desire for consumer goods has not abated.