Abated

//əˈbeɪtɪd// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.
  2. 2
    humbled.
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of abate form-of, participle, past

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