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Audio Help [beyt] Pronunciation Key verb, bat·ed, bat·ing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to moderate or restrain: unable to bate our enthusiasm.

2.	to lessen or diminish; abate: setbacks that bated his hopes.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to diminish or subside; abate.

—Idiom

4.	with bated breath, with breath drawn in or held because of anticipation or suspense: We watched with bated breath as the runners approached the finish line.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME, aph. var. of abate

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–verb (used without object)

1.	(of a hawk) to flutter its wings and attempt to escape in a fit of anger or fear.

–noun

2.	a state of violent anger or fear.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME baten to beat, flap (wings, etc.) < MF (se) batre ≪ L battuere to beat; cf. abate

]

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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

1.	Tanning. to soak (leather) after liming in an alkaline solution to soften it and remove the lime.

–noun

2.	the solution used.

[Origin: 1870–75; var. of beat to pare off turf, OE bǣtan to bait; c. Sw beta to tan, G beissen to macerate

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bate¹ Audio Help (bāt) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. bat·ed, bat·ing, bates

To lessen the force or intensity of; moderate: "To his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story" (George Eliot). See Usage Note at bait¹.
To take away; subtract.

[Middle English baten, short for abaten; see abate.]

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bate² also bait Audio Help (bāt) Pronunciation Key
intr.v. bat·ed also bait·ed, bat·ing also bait·ing, bates also baits
To flap the wings wildly or frantically. Used of a falcon.

[Middle English baten, from Old French batre, to beat; see batter¹.]

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bate (1)

"to reduce, to lessen in intensity," c.1300, aphetic of abate (q.v.). Now only in phrase bated breath, which was first used by Shakespeare in "The Merchant of Venice" (1596).

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bate (2)

c.1300, "to contend with blows or arguments," from O.Fr. batre, from L.L. battere, from L. batuere (see batter (v.)). In falconry, "to beat the wings impatiently and flutter away from the perch." Figurative sense of "to flutter downward" attested from 1590.

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bate
verb
1.	moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm"
2.	flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons
3.	soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"

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A*bate"\ ([.a]*b[=a]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abated, p. pr. & vb. n. Abating.] [OF. abatre to beat down, F. abattre, LL. abatere; ab or ad + batere, battere (popular form for L. batuere to beat). Cf. Bate, Batter.]

1. To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.]

The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. --Edw. Hall.

2. To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.

His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. --Deut. xxxiv. 7.

3. To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.

Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. --Fuller.

4. To blunt. [Obs.]

To abate the edge of envy. --Bacon.

5. To reduce in estimation; to deprive. [Obs.]

She hath abated me of half my train. --Shak.

6. (Law) (a) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. (b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.

To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

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Bate

Bate\, n. [Prob. abbrev. from debate.] Strife; contention. [Obs.] --Shak.

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Bate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bating.] [From abate.]

1. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.

He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. --Locke.

2. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

To whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament. --South.

3. To leave out; to except. [Obs.]

Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood. He lies that says it. --Beau. & Fl.

4. To remove. [Obs.]

About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. --Holland.

5. To deprive of. [Obs.]

When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake. --Herbert.

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Bate

Bate\, v. i. 1. To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.

Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine. --Dryden.

2. To waste away. [Obs.] --Shak.

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Bate

Bate\, v. t. To attack; to bait. [Obs.] --Spenser.

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Bate

Bate\, imp. of Bite. [Obs.] --Spenser.

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Bate

Bate\, v. i. [F. battre des ailes to flutter. Cf. Bait to flutter.] To flutter as a hawk; to bait. [Obs.] --Bacon.

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Bate

Bate\, n. (Jewish Antiq.) See 2d Bath.

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Bate

Bate\, n. [Cf. Sw. beta maceration, soaking, G. beize, and E. bite.] An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer. --Knight.

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Bate

Bate\, v. t. To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.

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Bate

Bate"ment\, n. [For Abatement. See 2d Bate.] Abatement; diminution. --Moxon.

Batement light (Arch.), a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

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Bate

Bat"ing\, prep. [Strictly p. pr. of Bate to abate.] With the exception of; excepting.

We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. --Locke.

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Bat"ter\ (b[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Battered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Battering.] [OE. bateren, OF. batre, F. battre, fr. LL. battere, for L. batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. Abate, Bate to abate.]

1. To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

2. To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. "Each battered jade." --Pope.

3. (Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

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