{"id":61,"date":"2014-04-06T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2014-04-06T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:20:15","slug":"abate-a-word-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/abate-a-word-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Abate | A word a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abate (verb)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To abate something is to reduce its degree, severity or intensity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Present: abate \/ abates<\/li>\n<li>Past: abated<\/li>\n<li>Past participle: abated<\/li>\n<li>Gerund or \u2013ing form: abating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example sentences<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her sarcastic remarks didn\u2019t abate his enthusiasm.<\/li>\n<li>They abated all mention of his name from the records. (= They omitted his name.)<\/li>\n<li>The minister promised to look into the matter, but that didn\u2019t abate the public outcry.<\/li>\n<li>When the storm abated we resumed our journey.<\/li>\n<li>The pain finally abated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Antonyms: intensify, increase and strengthen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related forms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abatable (adjective), unabatable (adjective), unabating (adjective), unabatingly (adverb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abate (verb) To abate something is to reduce its degree, severity or intensity. Present: abate \/ abates Past: abated Past participle: abated Gerund or \u2013ing form: abating Example sentences Her sarcastic remarks didn\u2019t abate&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-abate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}