Sample Sentences for
abate
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    How long I scramble along dodging the fireballs I can't say, but the attacks finally begin to abate.  (source)
    abate = become less intense
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    Though the bitter cold did not abate, the daylight hours grew perceptibly longer.  (source)
    abate = become less in amount or intensity
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    Harry had not expected Hermione's anger to abate over night and was therefore unsurprised that she communicated mainly by dirty looks and pointed silences the next morning.  (source)
    abate = go away
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    When he opened them again it was evening and some of the sharp pain had abated, there were many dull aches, and the crash came back to him fully.  (source)
    abated = decreased
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    If the wind didn't abate-and soon-the summit would be out of the question for all of us.  (source)
    abate = become less intense
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    I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.  (source)
    unabated = no reduction in intensity of
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unabated means not. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet's ill-humor or ill health.†  (source)
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    At Hopkins we're talking about three, and possibly a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery, because we have such a high volume of cases, and we see no signs of its abating.†  (source)
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    If you are determined to return home with your grandfather, then you must stay there until the fever abates.  (source)
    abates = reduces in intensity
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    She had made large concessions with regard to her, and had yet insisted that, with all abatements, she was very valuable.†  (source)
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    The wind had somewhat abated but was still blowing.  (source)
    abated = became less strong
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    The tension that had taken months to abate was suddenly at full force.  (source)
    abate = become less intense
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    Yet the frenzy of preparations for Monday's opening continued unabated.  (source)
    unabated = without a reduction in intensity
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