- Abate means: to reduce in amount, degree or intensity (“to abate one’s enthusiasm”)
- To diminish
- To put an end to or suppress
- To suspend or extinguish (an action).
- To deduct or subtract
- To omit
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Etymology & Origin of abate
First coined circa 1300, from the Middle French word abatre (“to beat down")