abated

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈbeɪtɪd/ Rhymes: -eɪtɪd === Verb === abated simple past and past participle of abate === Adjective === abated (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. (poetry) humbled. ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === 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