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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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    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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    On the afternoon of May 15, when the blizzard finally abated, I returned to the southeast face and climbed to the top of a slender ridge that abuts the upper peak like a flying buttress on a Gothic cathedral.  (source)
    abated = stopped
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    The worry he'd felt when he read the Hutu Ten Commandments didn't pass entirely, but it abated.  (source)
    abated = diminished
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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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    Yet the frenzy of preparations for Monday's opening continued unabated.  (source)
    unabated = without a reduction in intensity
    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 research was part of a study examining lead abatement methods, and all families involved were black.†  (source)
    abatement = the act of reducing in amount or intensity; or the condition of having been reduced in amount or intensity
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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)
    abating = reducing amount or intensity
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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)
    abatements = things that made something less in amount or intensity
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    CANTO XXIII E'en as the bird, who midst the leafy bower Has, in her nest, sat darkling through the night, With her sweet brood, impatient to descry Their wished looks, and to bring home their food, In the fond quest unconscious of her toil: She, of the time prevenient, on the spray, That overhangs their couch, with wakeful gaze Expects the sun; nor ever, till the dawn, Removeth from the east her eager ken; So stood the dame erect, and bent her glance Wistfully on that region, where the sun Abateth most his speed; that, seeing her Suspense and wand'ring, I became as one, In whom desire is waken'd, and the hope Of somewhat new to come fills with delight.†  (source)
    Abateth = makes or becomes less in amount or intensity
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She abateth" in older English, today we say "She abates."
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    The wind had somewhat abated but was still blowing.  (source)
    abated = became less strong
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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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