bate

About 0.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To reduce the force of something; to abate.
2. verb To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
3. verb To cut off, remove, take away.
4. verb To leave out, except, bar.
5. verb To waste away.
6. verb To deprive of.
7. verb To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
8. verb To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

Similar words

reduce diminish moderate smith beit abate rebate abate of attenuate aslake

Often followed by

of and a was in the dudley et one

Word family

bated bates bating