Where to Use Abate?

Abate sentence example
  • In an hour or so the storm would abate and they could leave. ...
  • I took Laura some homemade cookies, hoping to abate her sadness. ...
  • Taking pain medicine can cause headaches to abate . ...
  • The crowd's roar began to abate after a few minutes of excitement.

How do you use abated?

Abated sentence example
  1. The pain abated and she waited a few minutes. ...
  2. The rifle fire abated and the ground shook with the drumming of hooves. ...
  3. The hunger abated , and she dropped her head back to the pillow, satisfied.

What does it mean to abate something?

1 : to decrease in force or intensity waiting for the storm to abate. 2a : to become defeated or become null or void (as of a writ or appeal) b : to decrease in amount or value The legacies abated proportionately. transitive verb. 1a : to put an end to abate a nuisance.

James H. Sterling

James H. Sterling

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