(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.
Omit
Definition:
(v. t.) To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
(v. t.) To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect.
Example Sentences:
(1) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(2) After restrained least-squares refinement of the enzyme-substrate complex with the riboflavin omitted from the model, additional electron density appeared near the pyrophosphate, which indicated the presence of an ADPR molecule in the FAD binding site of PHBH.
(3) KCl thus appears to induce an intermediate which is either nonexistent when omitted or in such low concentration as not to be readily detected.
(4) Sixty-one percent of all discharge summaries omitted the diagnosis of diabetes.
(5) Collier usually attends in his place, but Guardian Australia has been told he was not invited to next month’s meeting, in the hope that omitting him might encourage Barnett to board a plane.
(6) This "activation" process does not take place if any of the three factors is omitted from preincubation (and added subsequently) or when ATP is replaced by a nonhydrolyzable analog.
(7) Insulin (bovine) decreased protein degradation in the EDC and UL muscles by 11.3 and 10.5%, respectively, when glucose was present in the incubation medium and by 11.0 and 10.3% when glucose was omitted.
(8) The effect on dopamine was readily diminished if MPP+, after a 15 min incubation, was then omitted from the medium.
(9) Hybridoma cell lines, producing supernatants which reacted not only with amyloid substances but also with normal human tissues, were omitted from the subjects of recloning, and one hybridoma cell line (Am-1) producing a specific monoclonal antibody (MAb) against the immunized amyloid substance was finally obtained.
(10) From normal human leukocytes, acid RNase was purified about 400-fold by the same procedure described previously except that rechromatography on Sephadex G-75 was omitted.
(11) Using solutions with tubocurarine from which calcium was omitted and an electrode filled with CaCl2 a late slow negative response component was recorded.
(12) The current was not blocked by external 4-aminopyridine or tetraethylammonium, and it was still present if external potassium was omitted and internal potassium was replaced by cesium.
(13) The author draws attention to the advantages of the omitted diagnostic method which can be used by all ophthalmological departments.
(14) Modulation of cellular senescence by growth factors, hormones, and genetic manipulation is contrasted, but newer studies in oncogene involvement are omitted.
(15) Perhaps he modified his language for the NY Times reporter, but the more likely explanation is that his swearing added nothing and was therefore omitted by the writer or edited out; in America, even in liberal New York, profanities still need to be argued into print.
(16) The Huddersfield half-back, who is on a shortlist of three to be crowned Man of Steel as the outstanding player of the Super League season on Monday night, has never been a favourite of the England coach, Steve McNamara, who omitted Brough from the 30-man training squad announced in March .
(17) In conclusion, induction chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy may omit radical surgery, without compromising survival, in some patients with locally advanced cancer of the oral cavity, oropharynx and hypopharynx.
(18) Scale items that differed from the raters' intuition tended to be omitted more than others.
(19) When either the DEAE-dextran or the sonicate was omitted, no significant transformation was found.
(20) Omitting methanol during transfer, the equilibration step is avoided and the same buffer is used in electrophoresis and transfer.