Abating

What do we mean by abating?

(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 reduce in amount, size, or value.

To decrease in size, value, or amount.

To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.

To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.

To deduct or omit.

To bar or except.

To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.

To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.

To destroy, or level to the ground.

Words that are spelled similarly to abating:
abating, abasing, bating, ablating.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word abating:
decider, emissions, pollution, defeat, crime, wind, medal, winning, soon, countries, league.

Words that rhyme with abating:
debilitating, fascinating, emanating, dating, exhilarating, rating, implicating, devastating, excruciating, grating, accommodating, intimidating, captivating, skating, extenuating, mating, waiting, contemplating, plating, invigorating, undulating, awaiting, ingratiating, frustrating, titillating, vacillating, irritating, operating, mitigating, stimulating, deprecating, denigrating, culminating, aggravating, self-deprecating, fluctuating, illuminating, intoxicating, indicating, abrogating, creating, recuperating, eliminating, calculating, advocating, gaiting, exasperating, discriminating, anticipating, alienating, infuriating, relating, alternating, weighting, penetrating, humiliating, gating, nauseating, berating, procrastinating, deteriorating, abbreviating, exacerbating, liberating, articulating, escalating, oscillating, baiting, incriminating, facilitating, rotating, stating, delineating, delegating, accumulating, coordinating, radiating, percolating, communicating, accelerating, pontificating, obviating, cultivating, pulsating, bating, subordinating, excoriating, reciprocating, initiating, annihilating, permeating, suffocating, emulating, dominating, instigating, salivating, activating, perpetuating, appropriating, differentiating.

Adjectives that are often used to describe abating:
little, daily, french, last, creative, acute, more, first, current, natural, class.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective abating:
countries, struggle, technologies, devices, enthusiasm.

Consonant match to abating:
abutting, abetting.

Words that sound like abating:
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