Usage examples for abate
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That was his view and he would not abate it. – This Freedom by A. S. M. Hutchinson
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That the fever would presently abate, and the ex- officer be spared his life, seemed highly probable. – Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
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Not that moment's darkness only, but all the hardness of years seemed to abate in the old skipper's features, so that presently Captain Nat stood transfigured. – The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison