Word Meanings - ASLAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. Chaucer.

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• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• MODERATE
  Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree
• MODERATELY
  In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller.
• DIMINISHABLE
  Capable of being diminished or lessened.
• ABATEMENT
  A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon. (more info) 1. The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof. 2. The amount
• DIMINISHMENT
  Diminution. Cheke.
• APPEASER
  One who appeases; a pacifier.
• APPEASEMENT
  The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.
• ABATE
  To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it
• APPEASE
  To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel ; as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst. Syn. -- To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose;
• MITIGATE
  1. To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief. 2. To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
• MODERATENESS
  The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
• DIMINISHINGLY
  In a manner to diminish.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• DIABATERIAL
  Passing over the borders. Mitford.
• IMMODERATENESS
  The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance. Puller.
• IMMODERATELY
  In an immoderate manner; excessively.
• INDIMINISHABLE
  Incapable of being diminished. Milton.
• RABATE
  To recover to the fist, as a hawk.
• IMMODERATE
  Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter. So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Shak. Syn. -- Excessive;