Abase vs. Abate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Abase and Abate
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Abase
To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem.
Abate
To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; lessen
A program to abate air pollution.
Abase
(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
Abate
To put an end to
The court ordered that the nuisance of the wrecked vehicle in the front yard be abated.
Abase
To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
To abase the eye
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Abate
To make void
The judge abated the lawsuit.
Abase
To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
Abate
To reduce for some period of time
The town abated the taxes on buildings of historical importance for three years.
Abase
To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
Saying so, he abased his lance.
Abate
To fall off in degree or intensity; subside
Waiting for the rain to abate.
Abase
To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.
Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased.
Abate
To become void.
Abase
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;
He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss
Abate
To become reduced for a period of time.
Abate
(transitive)
Abate
To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
Abate
To reduce (something) in amount or size.
Abate
To lower (something) in price or value.
Abate
(archaic)
Abate
(law)
Abate
(obsolete)
Abate
(intransitive)
Abate
To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
Abate
To decrease in amount or size.
Abate
To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
Bequests and legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
Abate
Of an edge, point, etc.: to become blunt or dull.
Abate
(law)
Abate
(obsolete)
Abate
To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
Abate
(uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
Abate
(uncountable) Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.
Abate
An Italian abbot or other member of the clergy.
Abate
To beat down; to overthrow.
The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls.
Abate
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.
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Abate
To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds.
Abate
To blunt.
To abate the edge of envy.
Abate
To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
She hath abated me of half my train.
Abate
To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
Abate
To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated.
Abate
To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
Abate
Abatement.
Abate
Make less active or intense
Abate
Become less in amount or intensity;
The storm abated
The rain let up after a few hours
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