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Make less intense, as one's breath
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bate
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To reduce the force of something; to abate. 2 (context transitive English) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation; as, ''with bated breath''. 3 (context transitive sometimes figuratively ...
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v. moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm" flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to reduce, to lessen in intensity," c.1300, shortening of abate (q.v.). Now only in phrase bated breath , which was used by Shakespeare in "The Merchant of Venice" (1596).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bate is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ahmade Bate (1417–1491), Kurdish poet and cleric Anthony Bate (1927–2012), English actor C. T. Bate (1823–1889), Canadian politician Charles Spence Bate (1819–1889), British zoologist and dentist ...
Usage examples of bate.
I had my way in the end--I usually do--besides the satisfaction of finding that Granger Bates was still capable of stepping right along with his wife.
True, he had not rolled up any such enormous fortune as that of Granger Bates, nor did he make in the public eye any such splendid and enviable figure.
Throughout the call the talk had been frankly, inevitably personal, and Susan Bates had treated Eliza Marshall, whose difficult and captious character she at once apprehended, with the most elaborate and ingenious simplicity.
Why, from Susan Bates, to be sure--and in this very place: strophe and antistrophe.
Granger Bates, whose escort could not but expect to draw scrutiny and to provoke inquiry.
Her card was filled to the last line, and she danced it out--with William Bates, with Arthur Paston, and with a score of other young men for whose names the present pages have no need.
Susan Bates, in fact, had renewed the attack, and she prosecuted it whenever occasion offered.
Marshall noticed that Bates had put his flowers into his right-hand button-hole, and Bingham his into his left.
XIII Eliza Marshall meditated on the Bates dinner for several days succeeding, and when the following Saturday morning came round she was still busy with it.
On the side of William Bates there was his position, his ability, his certain future, and the sentimental resumption of old family relations.
But the more the family found to say directly and indirectly on behalf of William Bates, the more resolutely Rosamund turned her face in the opposite direction.
Paston, looking backward, saw Rosamund and William Bates together near the stern.
Susan Bates, with a slight touch of mortification, at once set the whole matter aside.
Susan Bates merely laughed, feeling that she had regained the upperhand.
Ingles at once appropriated William Bates for a walk through the framework of the unfinished dormitories.