Abate meaning

Verb: abate

Pronunciation :( u’beyt)

Abate meaning: To become less intense or widespread.To reduce in degree or intensity or to reduce in value or amount.

Synonyms: diminish, decrease, decline.

Derived forms: abates, abating, abated

Quotations: Alvar N.C. De Vaca – Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

James Madison – I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca – We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Euripides – What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.

The agitation has continued without abatement.

You’ve got a decent summer rally under way with good breadth in the marketplace and, mostly, that’s attributable to the fact that fear over what the Fed could do to the economy is abating and that helps all sectors.

While activism will assuredly rise in 2006, the movement will likely abate.

I think that the PC, the PC peripheral, and the semiconductor space is in a pretty big slowdown period right now, and I don’t see this abating anytime before the summertime. Maybe the PC market picks up a little bit in the second quarter, but really you are looking at summer before it starts to come back.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

We need to keep the focus on reasonably priced growth stocks, inflation fears should have abated on the backs of economic numbers that have generally been more balanced than expected.

The markets are rebounding a little after several sessions of weakness that stemmed from rising oil prices, rising fears of terrorism and a sharp decline in the dollar, those issues have somewhat abated today, but they are issues the market will continue to face over the next few weeks. As a result, you could see more profit taking.

Abated and we are back on economic stabilization and growth mode.

Input price pressures are abating and this should reduce uncertainty and pressure on profit margins in coming months.