All 3 Uses of
abate
in
Gulliver's Travels
- I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the storm was much abated.
Chpt 1 *abated = diminished (become less intense)
- …or incest; others, to the prostituting of their own wives and daughters; others, to the betraying of their country or their prince; some, to poisoning; more to the perverting of justice, in order to destroy the innocent, I hope I may be pardoned, if these discoveries inclined me a little to abate of that profound veneration, which I am naturally apt to pay to persons of high rank, who ought to be treated with the utmost respect due to their sublime dignity, by us their inferiors.†
Chpt 3
- The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(abate) to become less in amount or intensity