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v. Simple past tense and past participle of abate.

In decorative art, lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief.

"The world waited with baited breath (or is that bated breath, as in abated?) for the results of Northampton County judicial and county elections."

to abate in lands   

abated    abates    abating   

diminish    fall    lessen    decrease    minify   

abating process    abated arms   

lessen    diminish    contract    moderate    deduct    omit    blunt    deprive    intermit    decline   

Ate    Cate    Est    Fate    Haight    Iwate    Kate    Kuwait    Nate    Solid-state