how to pronounce abate

verb:

1. To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
2. To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
3. To become null and void.
4. To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
5. To reduce in amount, size, or value. <ref name = Chambers>Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 2</ref>.
6. To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
7. To deduct or omit.
8. To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
9. To nullify; make void.
10. To decrease in size, value, or amount. <ref name = Chambers/>.
11. To destroy, or level to the ground.
12. To put an end to; to cause to cease.
13. To curtail; to deprive.
14. To bar or except.
15. To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
16. To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.

noun:

1. An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.
2. Abatement.