abated

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈbeɪtɪd/

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Verb

abated

1. simple past and past participle of abate

Adjective

abated

1. (decorative arts) 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. (poetry) humbled.

Derived terms

• unabated

 

Further reading

• “abated”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “abated”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Century Dictionary, volume 1, 1889, page 5