abates

• abolishes
• cancels
• decrease
• decreases
• deducts
• depletes
• deprives
• diminish
• diminishes
• dull
• dwindle
• ebb
• recede
• reduces
• repeals
• slacken
• slow
• strips
• subside
• subsides
• subtracts
• taper
• taper off
• wane

• accumulates
• adds
• advance
• amplifies
• appears
• augments
• boosts
• builds
• develop
• emerges
• enacts
• enlarge
• enlarges
• escalates
• establishes
• expand
• expands
• extend
• extends
• forward
• founds
• grow
• grows
• increase
• increases
• institutes
• intensifies
• lays down
• mounts
• mushrooms
• passes
• raise
• raises
• rise
• rises
• soars
• swells

• noun
1. Abatement.
2. An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.
• verb
1. (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
2. To become null and void.
3. To nullify; make void.
4. To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
5. To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
6. To curtail; to deprive.
7. To reduce in amount, size, or value.
8. To decrease in size, value, or amount.
9. To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
10. To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
11. To deduct or omit.
12. To bar or except.
13. To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
14. To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
15. To destroy, or level to the ground.
16. To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.

• As the storm passes, the intensity of the rain gradually abates.
• With proper medication, the symptoms of the illness begin to abate.
• The teacher's strict policy on late assignments never abates throughout the school year.
• The tension between the two colleagues finally abates after a productive discussion.
• The traffic congestion typically abates during the late evening hours.

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