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# abate

«abate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to become less strong or less in amount: «The storm abated.»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (abate, abates, abated, abating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To abate means to become less strong or less in amount: «The storm abated.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/#m1)

2) (formal, law) To abate something means to make it less or put an end to it: «abate the noise». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and weather reports, storms, winds, floods and pain abate; the word tells the reader the danger is passing. In formal writing and exams, it is a stiff word for «die down». In law, a council can order a nuisance (noise, smoke) to be abated. Phrases: «the storm abated», «show no signs of abating», «unabated» (still as strong).

### examples

- We waited in the hut until the storm abated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/#x1)
- The floods began to abate after three days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/#x2)
- Her fever abated during the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/#x3)
- The noise from the party showed no signs of abating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/#x4)
- When the wind abated, the boats sailed out again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/#x5)
- The fighting continued unabated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/#x6)
- By this time the storm was much abated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: abated, abating. Formal; in everyday talk say «die down», «ease off». Opposite: increase, grow. «Unabated» means not getting weaker.

### In the corpora

- [And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.203/)
- [And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto the LORD, and the fire abated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.437/)
- [And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.975/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.