Clues for the word "ABATE"
We've had 95 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 752 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on March 07, 2025.
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
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - March 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 04, 2025
- USA Today - March 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 18, 2025
- LA Times - February 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 11, 2025
- LA Times - February 08, 2025
- LA Times - January 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 29, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 23, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 21, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 18, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 06, 2024
- Daily American - November 30, 2024
- USA Today - November 28, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 14, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 30, 2024
- And in 722 more crossword puzzles...