abated

verb

Meaning

(obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
To become null and void.
To nullify; make void.
To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
To curtail; to deprive.
To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
(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.

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