abated

• IPA^(key): /əˈbeɪtɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtɪd

abated

1. simple past and past participle of abate
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abated

1. (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.
2. (poetry) humbled.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “abated”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “abated”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Century Dictionary, volume 1, 1889, page 5