Crossword-Solution: ABATE 5 letters, 210 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Abate	v. t.	To beat down; to overthrow.
Abate	v. t.	To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.
Abate	v. t.	To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
Abate	v. t.	To blunt.
Abate	v. t.	To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
Abate	v. t.	To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
Abate	v. t.	To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
Abate	v. t.	To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
Abate	v. t.	To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
Abate	n.	Abatement.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ABATE	anagram	ABEAT, ATEBA, BEATA, TEABA

We have 210 clues for the answer “ABATE”

Clue	Answers
Become bearable	1 answer
Die down, as a storm	1 answer
Diminish in strength	1 answer
Diminish, as a nuisance	1 answer
Drop in intensity	1 answer
Drop off slowly	1 answer
Ease up, as a storm	1 answer
Ease; subside	1 answer
End, as a nuisance	1 answer
Fade slowly	1 answer
Fall in intensity	1 answer
Fall off in intensity	1 answer
Get less serious	1 answer
Go from worse to bad, say	1 answer
Grow milder.	1 answer
Knock down, as a bill	1 answer
Lessen in strength	1 answer
Lessen in tension	1 answer
Lessen, as a storm	1 answer
Let up, as a Storm	1 answer
Let up, as rain	1 answer
Lose strength, as a storm	1 answer
Quash, in law	1 answer
Snowball's opposite	1 answer
Subside, as a storm	1 answer
Tail off, as a storm	1 answer
Taper off, as wind	1 answer
The rain let up after a few hours	1 answer
To grow less	1 answer
Weaken a magnet when picked up	1 answer
What asbestos contractors do	1 answer
What storms eventually do	1 answer
make or become less strong	1 answer
opposite of increase	1 answer
Decline gradually in amount or intensity	2 answers
Decline slowly	2 answers
Decrease in intensity	2 answers
Decrease in strength	2 answers
Ease back	2 answers
Ebb away	2 answers
Gradually lessen	2 answers
Lessen in force.	2 answers
Lessen, as the tide	2 answers
Recede, as the tide	2 answers
Reduce, as taxes	2 answers
Slacken up	2 answers
make allowance	2 answers
off Info	2 answers
BECOME less	3 answers
Opposite of "aggravate"	3 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

AEEMCZ

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with ABATE (5)

Although, by a seemingly careless arrangement of his heterogeneous garb, he had endeavoured to conceal or abate the peculiarity, it was sufficiently evident to Hester Prynne that one of this man’s shoulders rose higher than the other.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

And what in me seems wanting but that I 450 May also in this poverty as soon Accomplish what they did, perhaps and more? Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools, The wise man’s cumbrance, if not snare; more apt To slacken virtue and abate her edge Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

Paradise Regained John Milton 1993

These were calculated in some degree to abate the dangers of the day; a precaution the more necessary, as the conflict was to be maintained with sharp swords and pointed lances.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

But von Horn did not abate his watchfulness as he stole silently within the precincts of the north campong, and, hugging the denser shadows of the palisade, crept toward the house.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

All at once from the dark line of the horizon whither it retired to gain its momentum, the monster rushed suddenly towards the _Abraham Lincoln_ with alarming rapidity, stopped suddenly about twenty feet from the hull, and died out,—not diving under the water, for its brilliancy did not abate,—but suddenly, and as if the source of this brilliant emanation was exhausted.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Quotes with ABATE (3)

We stand on the edge of national metamorphosis armed with hope and lengthy dreams, and the desire to leave the mistakes of the past far, far behind us. Some wake to a blessed plague of amnesia hoping never to recover the damage that was done. Some keep marching forward feeling the heavy ache of everything they wish to change about themselves and our nation dragging behind them like a long, prolonged shadow. And still others shine above the sun, sparkling like raging cosmonaut…

Otep Shamaya Quiet Lightning On The Noisy Mountain

You no longer speak of your old friends, your Council, your home. I fear that you are forgetting them, and forgetting your reason for coming here.” Hunter sighed. “It’s difficult to talk about them, they don’t belong here. Anyway, I thought you wanted me to give up my old life. Congratulations, you’ve won.” The Abate smiled sadly. “Perhaps I did, I wanted you to abandon your violent past and adopt our ways. But I see that you are giving up everything and taking on nothing. What are you afraid of George?

K.S. Marsden The Shadow Falls

The healthiest way I know how to move through an emotion effectively is to surrender completely to that emotion when its loop of physiology comes over me. I simply resign to the loop and let it run its course for 90 seconds. Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. Over time, the intensity and frequency of these circuits usually abate. ... Paying attention to which array of circuits we are concurrently running provides us with tremendous insight in…

Jill Bolte Taylor My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 778 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).