abated
Pronunciation: /əˈbeɪtɪd/
The English word “abated” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.
- humbled.
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