bate

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. To reduce the force of something; to abate.
2. To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
3. To cut off, remove, take away.
4. To leave out, except, bar.
5. To waste away.
6. To deprive of.
7. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
8. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

Noun

Strife; contention.

Noun

1. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
2. A vat which contains this liquid.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/beɪt/

Etimología (Inglés)

table
Inherited from Middle English baten (“to abate”), an aphetic form of abaten.