abates's Usage Examples:

Even though she be cognisantas she often isof her husbands extra-marital relations, she abates nothing of the duty which she has been taught to regard as the first canon of female ethics.

March 21st, 2006 The BBC greed never abates!The remission or abatement lasts generally throughout the morning; and about noon there is an exacerbation, seldom ushered in by chills, which continues till the early morning following, when it remits or abates as before.

Towards morning the fever abates; the pulse falls in frequency, but does not come down to the normal; headache and aching in the loins and limbs become less, but do not cease altogether; the body temperature falls, but does not touch the level of apyrexia.

March 21st, 2006 The BBC greed never abates!saturated vapour), in which it occupies a volume v", the line BC represents the change of volume (v" - v').

The remission or abatement lasts generally throughout the morning; and about noon there is an exacerbation, seldom ushered in by chills, which continues till the early morning following, when it remits or abates as before.

Synonyms:

fall, lessen, slack off, slack, die away, let up, diminish, decrease,

Antonyms:

lengthen, inflate, expand, crescendo, increase,