abated

Meanings

Verb

• make less active or intense
• become less in amount or intensity
  • "The storm abated"
• simple past and past participle of abate

Adj

• 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.

Synonyms

abate, die away, let up, slack, slack off, slake