Abate
[ə'beɪt] or [ə'bet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) become less in amount or intensity; 'The storm abated'; 'The rain let up after a few hours'.
费理斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:拉维恩
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Lessen, diminish, decrease, reduce, lower, relax, slacken.[2]. Remit, allow, bate, rebate, deduct.[3]. Moderate, assuage, mitigate, soothe, soften, qualify, alleviate, mollify, allay, appease, pacify, compose, tranquillize, temper, attempor, quiet, quell, calm, dull, blunt.[4]. (Law.) Remove, suppress, terminate, put an end to.
v. a. [1]. Decrease, diminish, lessen, subside, wane, ebb, intermit, slacken.[2]. (Law.) Be defeated, frustrated, or overthrown.
富兰克林校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Terminate, remove, suppress, lower, reduce, mitigate, diminish, moderate,lessen, subside, decrease
ANT:Prolong, continue, revive, develop, increase, aggravate, magnify, brew,ferment, rage, extend, enlarge, amplify, raise, enhance
整理:丽纳
解釋/意思:
v.t. to lessen: to deduct (with of): to mitigate: (law) to put an end to do away with as of an action or a nuisance to render null as a writ.—v.i. to grow less.—adjs. Abāt′able capable of being abated; Abāt′ed beaten down or cut away as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief.—n. Abate′ment the act of abating: the sum or quantity abated: (law) the act of intruding on a freehold and taking possession before the heir the abandonment of an action or the reduction of a legacy: (her.) a supposed mark of dishonour on a coat of arms—apparently never actually used.—Abated arms those whose edges have been blunted for the tournament.
希勒尔錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- This reflection does not, however, abate in the slightest our sense of bereavement in the untimely loss of so good and great a man as Abraham Lincoln. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I abate not a single boot-jack. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We must lie still, in the calm harbor, till the storm should abate. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Helen regarded me, probably with surprise: I could not now abate my agitation, though I tried hard; I continued to weep aloud. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It was not for his friend to abate that confidence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Men and women clamored for remedies, vowed, shouted and insisted that their official servants do something--something statesmanlike--to abate so much evident wrong. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- His anger had not abated; it was rather rising the more as his sense of immediate danger was passing away. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The path from the wood leads to a morass, and from thence to a ford, which, as the rains have abated, may now be passable. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The violence of our party debates about the new constitution seems much abated, indeed almost extinct, and we are getting fast into good order. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The stationer's heart begins to thump heavily, for his old apprehensions have never abated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- At last the fever abated and the boy commenced to mend. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
整理:朱莉安娜