abate

• (verb) become less in amount or intensity

  "The storm abated", "The rain let up after a few hours"

  die away , let up , slack , slack off

• (verb) make less active or intense

  slack , slake

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• (Tag: ) (Tag : ) ab+ate , conc on ate, if u ate (spent) all ur money , ur property comes to an end (abate)

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• (Tag: ) Focus on ate,generally people will eat less to be slim.so,to less down in the amount to be taken.

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• (Tag: ) Focus on ‘ate’ part of abate. Also, eat (ate, eaten). Eating something means destroying something and hence to put an end to something.

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• (Tag: ) rebate means discount... i.e reducing the price.. abate and rebate are rhyming words

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• (Tag: ) To catch a fish you need a bate. That way you reduce the amount of fish in the sea

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• (Tag: ) or you have abate......and bate is derived from abate

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• (Tag: ) We are waiting for the rain to abate.

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• (Tag: ) Once Lord Buddha proclaimed that "The deepest of pain abates with the passage of time" DUKH JITNA BHI GEHRAA HO WAQT KE SAATH KAM HO JAATA HEY

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• (Tag: ) bate(if some body beats u,ur self respect for him gets diminished)...hence abate counts for getng diminishd by sum means...

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• (Tag: ) Abate means to become less severe or widespread. Like the rain abated..

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