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Abated
//əˈbeɪtɪd// adj, verb
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Adjective
- 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 humbled.
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of abate form-of, participle, past
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