Clues for the word "ABATE"
We've had 95 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 686 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on April 17, 2024.
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
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 17, 2024
- LA Times - April 11, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 30, 2024
- LA Times - March 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 20, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 02, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 02, 2024
- USA Today - March 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - February 20, 2024
- Daily American - February 10, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 03, 2024
- New York Times - January 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 15, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 29, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 14, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 23, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 19, 2023
- Daily American - November 18, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 10, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 08, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 02, 2023
- And in 656 more crossword puzzles...