bated

verb

past tense of bate
as in removed

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  1. removed
  2. deducted
  3. abated
  4. subtracted
  5. disconnected
  6. detached
  7. separated
  8. unfastened
Verb
  • Their former leaders have been removed, and they’re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • In fact, the film’s story would still be comprehensible if its few subtitles were removed (one of Murnau’s earlier silents — 1924’s The Last Laugh — has no titles whatsoever).
    — Tim Page, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026
Definition of removed
Verb
  • They're expressed as a percentage of your investment and deducted automatically.
    — Elizabeth Gravier,Dan Avery, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • The site does the advertising, booking and payment collection in exchange for a 30% fee that’s deducted from the teacher’s earnings.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026
Definition of deducted
Verb
  • Rising oil prices could drive new inflation concerns which had abated as oil fell since early June on hopes of the war there being over.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, Israeli attacks, though lessened, have not fully abated, with near-daily strikes killing at least 1,072 people since the ceasefire took effect.
    — Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Definition of abated
Verb
  • At public institutions, the average amount that a student pays now after all the discounts and everything is subtracted is only about $2,300 according to the college board.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 20 July 2026
  • The report then stripped out liabilities, which includes mortgage debt, of $5 trillion and subtracted the wealth of the top 1%, estimated at $28 trillion.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 17 July 2026
Definition of subtracted
Verb
  • Paramount has forcefully argued that the states’ challenge is disconnected from the modern media market and that delay serves large technology platforms rather than consumers.
    — Maureen Kerr, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • The person knocked on the door and was let in by Chavez, and the video recording device was disconnected about 10 minutes later, investigators have said.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026
Definition of disconnected
Verb
  • With everyone else, she was detached, her behavior unimpeachable.
    — Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
  • These include anxiety, emotional distress, resurfacing of painful memories and dissociation – feeling detached from oneself or one’s surroundings.
    — Ronald S. Green, The Conversation, 16 July 2026
Definition of detached
Verb
  • June Nielsens Less than a point separated the top-three stations in Los Angeles during the June ratings period released last week, according to Nielsen.
    — Richard Wagoner, Daily News, 20 July 2026
  • All activities are governed internally, legally separated from market operations, and configured to support sovereign readiness—never exposure.
    — Alfonso Cahero, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of separated
Verb
  • After the pink fabric is unfastened from styrofoam beams floating 200 feet out from each island, the sections are towed to shore and rolled up in bundles, Morgan said.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Definition of unfastened
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