Abate

(verb.) become less in amount or intensity; 'The storm abated'; 'The rain let up after a few hours'.

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• This reflection does not, however, abate in the slightest our sense of bereavement in the untimely loss of so good and great a man as Abraham Lincoln. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I abate not a single boot-jack. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We must lie still, in the calm harbor, till the storm should abate. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Helen regarded me, probably with surprise: I could not now abate my agitation, though I tried hard; I continued to weep aloud. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was not for his friend to abate that confidence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Men and women clamored for remedies, vowed, shouted and insisted that their official servants do something--something statesmanlike--to abate so much evident wrong. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• His anger had not abated; it was rather rising the more as his sense of immediate danger was passing away. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The path from the wood leads to a morass, and from thence to a ford, which, as the rains have abated, may now be passable. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The violence of our party debates about the new constitution seems much abated, indeed almost extinct, and we are getting fast into good order. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The stationer's heart begins to thump heavily, for his old apprehensions have never abated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• At last the fever abated and the boy commenced to mend. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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