Definitions
1.verb(obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease."to abate a nuisance"
2.verbTo become null and void."The writ has abated."
3.verbTo nullify; make void."to abate a writ"
4.verbTo humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
5.verbTo be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
6.verbTo curtail; to deprive."Order restrictions and prohibitions to abate an emergency situation."
7.verbTo reduce in amount, size, or value."Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets."
8.verbTo decrease in size, value, or amount.
9.verbTo moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
10.verbTo decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
11.verbTo deduct or omit."We will abate this price from the total."
12.verbTo bar or except.
13.verbTo cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
14.verbTo dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
15.verbTo destroy, or level to the ground.
16.verbTo enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
17.adjective(decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.