Clues for the word "ABATE"
We've had 96 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 830 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on August 22, 2026.
Definition of abate
- v. t. - To beat down; to overthrow.
- 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.
- v. t. - To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
- v. t. - To blunt.
- v. t. - To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
- v. t. - To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
- v. t. - To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
- v. t. - To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
- v. t. - To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
- n. - Abatement.
Referring Clues
- Diminish in intensity
- Drop off
- Diminish
- Decrease
- Die down
- Moderate
- Lessen
- Let up
- Ease off
- Fall off
- Taper off
- Ease
- Go down
- Weaken
- Slacken
- Tail off
- Wane
- Stem
- Subside
- Peter out
- Lessen, as a storm
- Slack off
- Reduce
- Ease up
- Become less intense
- Ebb
- Lose intensity
- Wind down
- Lull
- Settle down
- Cool
- Quiet down
- Decrease in strength
- Dwindle
- Recede
- Fall back
- Slow
- Slacken off
- Quash, in law
- Cut down
- Grow less
- Decrease in intensity
- Let up, as a storm
- Back off
- Fade away
- Reduce in intensity
- End, as a nuisance
- Calm down
- Die away
- Lower
- Reduce, as taxes
- Diminish, as a nuisance
- Tone down
- Fall
- Diminish in strength
- Slacken up
- Ebb away
- Lose steam
- Cut back
- Taper off, as wind
- Lessen in intensity
- Lose strength, as a storm
- Drop in intensity
- Decline
- Lessen in strength
- Slow down
- Relent
- Ease off, as rain
- Make or become less
- Lessen - cease
- Routed, beat a retreat
- Diminish or die down
- Diminish, mitigate
- Decline and Fall?
- A temptation said to diminish
- Let up, as rain
- Moderate a beta version
- Subside, as a storm
- Gradually lessen
- Make less intense
- Calm down a striker beginning to explode
- Fall off in intensity
- Lessen, as the tide
- Lessen gradually
- Deintensify
- Make or become less, subside
- Diminish what the seaman had to eat
- Decline slowly
- Snowball's opposite
- Diminish; slacken
- Fade slowly
- Die down, as a storm
- Ease up, as a storm
- Lose strength
- Go from worse to bad, say
- Taper
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - August 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - August 19, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - July 31, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2026
- New York Times - July 20, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - July 08, 2026
- New York Times - July 07, 2026
- New York Times - June 23, 2026
- New York Times - June 14, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - June 13, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 31, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 23, 2026
- Daily American - May 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 12, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 07, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 28, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 25, 2026
- Your Life Choices - April 19, 2026
- Your Life Choices - April 13, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 07, 2026
- Your Life Choices - April 06, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 02, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 02, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 02, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 28, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 23, 2026
- New York Times - February 22, 2026
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