(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accordingly, the present studies were conducted to determine whether acute OVX-induced FSH hypersecretion can be elicited in an animal model in which the anterior pituitary gland is isolated from diencephalic chemical signals, and if so, whether the hypersecretion could be abated by the FSH-suppressing protein, follistatin.
(2) The histologically demonstrated degree of activity had regressed significantly after the three-week treatment; in 90% of patients the inflammatory process had completely abated.
(3) Adverse effects included nausea, light-headedness, dyskinesias, and hallucinations, all of which abated after the Sinemet dose was reduced.
(4) A 51-year-old manic woman who developed acute severe lithium intoxication with neurotoxicity and nephrotoxicity during rapid abatement of manic episode was reported.
(5) The report of the PSAC Environmental Pollution Panel recommended "demonstration of the feasibility and economy of new developments for abating or controlling pollution through their use at Federal installations" and suggested the coalburning TVA power plants as a likely place for such demonstration.
(6) A few days after hospital admission the symptoms abated.
(7) "The greater the range of emission reduction opportunities that can be tapped into by countries, the more low cost abatement options there are likely to be," the report said.
(8) An accompanying thrombocytopenia was not abated by SQ 30,741.
(9) Even as the sounds of missiles around Şemdinli abate, news of bloody clashes elsewhere in the region keeps locals on their toes.
(10) In vitro, zinc supplement could abate the death of GalN-intoxicated hepatocytes, decrease malonaldehyde (MDA) content, and maintain reduced glutathione (GSH).
(11) Espírito Santo Financial markets regained some poise on Friday as fears abated about the potential spread of problems at one of Portugal's biggest banks.
(12) It's not hard to see why inflationary pressure is abating: the eurozone economy has been flat on its back for the past 18 months.
(13) Walls of the invaginated stump of the cystic duct are swiftly abated as a result of hydrostatic pressure and cover its gap.
(14) Once that abated, the solution for me was to stay and fight the Trump agenda with everything I have.
(15) • Rules requiring local authorities to investigate and abate noise, dust and odour nuisances will be liberalised or improved.
(16) Under treatment with erythromycin the clinical picture of intense swelling of the lid and the copious purulent discharge abated during the following 2 days.
(17) With antiinflammatory treatment the diarrhea abated, the surface epithelial injury decreased, and the subepithelial collagen resolved (two patients), but lamina propria inflammation persisted.
(18) Her symptoms abated when treated with prednisone, but she developed diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, and compression fracture of lumbar vertebrae while being treated.
(19) In cases observed following the time course, the occasionally increased IR-LHRH in plasma and CSF tended to decrease following the abatement of the diseases.
(20) These actions were fully abated by the pADPRP inhibitor 3-MBA.
Amate
Definition:
(v. t.) To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt.
(v. t.) To be a mate to; to match.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chelsea could at least draw encouragement from Eden Hazard's winner, the team's leading scorer fed by Ashley Cole's pass to dart inside Jordi Amat and skim a shot goalwards, which Tremmel might have saved had Ashley Williams not dived across his eye-line.
(3) (Vanegas, H., Laufer, M. and Amat, J., The optic tectum of a perciform teleost.
(4) Three cases of facial nerve palsy with abnormal synkinetic movement manifesting with eye closure on jaw opening (Marin-Amat Syndrome) are described.
(6) Cyclization of ethyl 5,6-diamino-4-hydrazinopyridin-2-ylcarbamate (10) with a mixture of CS2 and Et3N in dimethylacetamide gave mainly ethyl 1,4-diamino-2(3H)-thioxoimidazo[4,5-c]pyridin-6-ylcarbamate (15), whereas, in the absence of dimethylacetamide, a double cyclization gave mainly ethyl 5-amino-2(1H)-4-dithioxodiimidazo-[4,5-b:5,4-c]pyridin-7-ylcarb amate (16).
(7) Hazard was the subject of Mourinho's penalty appeal, too, as Amat dived in to claim the ball but then take the forward's back leg.
(8) Amat sulit bagi mereka yang tinggal dan bekerja di Jakarta untuk membayangkan masa depan metropolitan yang semrawut ini.
(9) This paper describes the chemical synthesis and CCK-B and CCK-A receptor binding affinities of a series of compounds in which the central amide bond of the CCK-B "dipeptoid" ligand tricyclo[3.3.1.1(3,7)]dec-2-yl [R-(R*,S*)]-[2-[[1-(hydroxymethyl)- 2-phenylethyl]amino]-1-(1H-indol-3-ylmethyl)-2-oxoethyl]carb amate (4) (CCK-B IC50 = 852 nM), and tricyclo[3.3.1.1(3,7)]dec-2-yl (R)-[1-(1H-indol-3-ylmethyl)-1-methyl- 2-oxo-2-[(2-phenylethyl)amino]ethyl]carbamate (23) (CCK-B IC50 = 32 nM) is replaced by 11 different amide replacements.
(10) The book will also tell of the Spanish lawyer Antonio Amat, who tried to build a coalition of democratic groups and has been in prison without trial since November 1958; and of two white men - the American Ashton Jones and Patrick Duncan from South Africa - persecuted by their own race for preaching that the coloured races should have equal rights.
(11) Sigurdsson’s finish was of the highest order – a curling left-footer into the far corner – and Amat spurned a decent headed opportunity to equalise in first-half stoppage time from Sigurdsson’s free-kick.
(12) Jordi Amat took a heavy touch following Héctor Bellerín’s headed cross and he was then levered off the subsequent chase for the ball by Walcott.
(13) Once again Sigurdsson was the architect, his curling free-kick from the right picking out Jordi Amat, whose twisting header was expertly tipped over by Pickford.