Synonyms and Antonyms of abating
1
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
- interest in the author's home abated as her novels waned in popularity
declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down) also
racheting (down)
, receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning
compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting
evaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishing
slackening, slowing (down)
alleviating, relaxing
flagging, sinking, weakening
caving (in), collapsing, deflating
accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning (also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing
2
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent
- a couple of aspirin should abate the pain
decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, diminishing, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, easing, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducing
compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting
abbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittling
deflating, shrinking
minimizing
moderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying
blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swelling
elongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting
adding (to), complementing, supplementing
enhancing, heightening, intensifying
redoubling
3
to put an end to by formal action
- asked the appellate court to abate the lower court's ruling allowing the patient to be removed from life support
abolishing, abrogating, annulling, avoiding, canceling (or cancelling), disannulling, dissolving, invalidating, negating, nullifying, nulling, quashing, repealing, rescinding, rolling back, striking down, vacating, voiding
countermanding, overriding, overruling, overturning, vetoing
aborting, calling, calling off, dropping, recalling, retracting, reversing, revoking, suspending, withdrawing
banning, enjoining, forbidding, outlawing, prohibiting
disallowing, dismissing, rejecting
annihilating, breaking down, eliminating, eradicating, erasing, liquidating, removing, throwing out, writing off
enacting, laying down, legislating
establishing, founding, instituting
formalizing, legalizing, legitimating, legitimizing, validating
passing, ratifying
allowing, approving, authorizing, clearing, endorsing (also indorsing), permitting, sanctioning, warranting
commanding, decreeing, mandating, ordering, prescribing
4
to take away (an amount or number) from a total
- I managed to get the used car dealer to abate $200 from the sticker price
decreasing, diminishing, discounting, downsizing, dwindling, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducing
abbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittling
adjoining, annexing, appending
complementing, supplementing
enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying
aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, multiplying, raising
5
to take something away from
- recurring problems could not abate her of her enthusiasm for the project
