Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
diminished or moderated;
- Example: "our bated enthusiasm"- Example: "his bated hopes"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bate \Bate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bating.] [From abate.]
1. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to
abate; to beat down; to lower.
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He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not
employ or not pay him. --Locke.
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2. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
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To whom he bates nothing of what he stood upon with
the parliament. --South.
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3. To leave out; to except. [Obs.]
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Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood,
He lies that says it. --Beau. & Fl.
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4. To remove. [Obs.]
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About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of
olives, and lay them bare. --Holland.
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5. To deprive of. [Obs.]
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When baseness is exalted, do not bate
The place its honor for the person's sake.
--Herbert.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bated \Bat"ed\, a.
Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
--Macaulay.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bated
adj 1: diminished or moderated; "our bated enthusiasm"; "his
bated hopes"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "bated":
abated, ablated, attenuated, belittled, consumed, contracted,
curtailed, damped, dampened, dead, deadened, decreased, deflated,
diminished, dissipated, dropped, dull, dulled, eroded, fallen,
flat, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, muffled, muted,
reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken,
smaller, smothered, softened, sordo, stifled, subdued,
watered-down, weakened, worn