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abatingverbpresent participle of abate to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallyinterest in the author's home abated as her novels waned in popularity declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening to make smaller in amount, volume, or extenta couple of aspirin should abate the pain decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, diminishing, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, easing, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducing compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittlingdeflating, shrinkingminimizingmoderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swellingelongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protractingadding (to), complementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifyingredoubling to put an end to by formal actionasked the appellate court to abate the lower court's ruling allowing the patient to be removed from life support abolishing, abrogating, annulling, avoiding, canceling(or cancelling), disannulling, dissolving, invalidating, negating, nullifying, nulling, quashing, repealing, rescinding, rolling back, striking down, vacating, voiding countermanding, overriding, overruling, overturning, vetoingaborting, calling, calling off, dropping, recalling, retracting, reversing, revoking, suspending, withdrawingbanning, enjoining, forbidding, outlawing, prohibitingdisallowing, dismissing, rejectingannihilating, breaking down, eliminating, eradicating, erasing, liquidating, removing, throwing out, writing off doing away with, setting aside enacting, laying down, legislatingestablishing, founding, institutingformalizing, legalizing, legitimating, legitimizing, validatingpassing, ratifyingallowing, approving, authorizing, clearing, endorsing(also indorsing), permitting, sanctioning, warrantingcommanding, decreeing, mandating, ordering, prescribing to take away (an amount or number) from a totalI managed to get the used car dealer to abate $200 from the sticker price deducting, knocking off, subtracting, taking off decreasing, diminishing, discounting, downsizing, dwindling, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittling adding, tacking (on) adjoining, annexing, appendingcomplementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingaggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, multiplying, raising to take something away fromrecurring problems could not abate her of her enthusiasm for the project bereaving, depriving, divesting, stripping denudingcheating, cleaning (out), defrauding, shortchangingbankrupting, disfurnishing, impoverishing |