abates
Because it is a word with a single syllable, abates is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofabates
- Abatement.
- (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
Example: "to abate a nuisance"
- To become null and void.
Example: "The writ has abated."
- To nullify; make void.
Example: "to abate a writ"
- To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
- To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
- To curtail; to deprive.
Example: "Order restrictions and prohibitions to abate an emergency situation."
- To reduce in amount, size, or value.
Example: "Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets."
- To decrease in size, value, or amount.
- To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
- To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
- To deduct or omit.
Example: "We will abate this price from the total."
- To bar or except.
- To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
- To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
- To destroy, or level to the ground.
- To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
- An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.
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