Abates is valid Scrabble Word

Is abates a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is abates valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for ABATES in dictionary:

VERB:

ABATE, to reduce in intensity
make (something) less intense
reduce or remove (a nuisance)
(of something unpleasant or severe) become less intense or widespread

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to reduce in degree or intensity

Words related to ABATES

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How to use ABATES in a sentence

It abates the vigilance which is said to be ever the price of liberty.
Johnson, however, in his Lives of the Poets, abates this praise, that he may transfer the greater part of it to Dryden and Pope.
It is inconceivable to a certain type of mind that a husband and wife can differ on political questions and may yet maintain an even harmony, while their love abates not one whit.
It frequently happens, that applause abates diligence.
And when, with the fading of his passion, the vividness of this idea abates, it does so only to leave behind a boundless weariness and a sick longing for death.
In proportion as general refinement prevails, the custom abates.
Beseech him to do all he can to avert the calamity that now threatens us, by pouring oil upon the troubled waters until the tempest of passion abates.
So soon as the storm abates, and my quarrel with Gunnar is ended.
Then, when the search for you abates, we can strike down thence to the seacoast, if the white men are still there.
Perhaps after his fever abates somewhat he may regain his equanimity, but to me it looks as if his mind will always be unbalanced.

For the fever, give him ten grains of quinine three times a day for two days and gradually diminish the quantity until the fever abates entirely.
An epoch rarely seems to create any great amount of excitement when it is in process of epoching, or at least the excitement is only temporary and soon abates.
The nipples grow red, the heart beats unusually strongly, the natural appetite abates, and the woman has a craving after strange food.
At last the paroxysm abates, throbbing ever slower, merging into the tender song of the Dream that now rises to the one great burst of love-passion.
The Vernal Fall abates her pleasant speed And hesitates to take the final plunge, For rumors reach her that another greed Awaits her in the Valley of the Sponge.
The tempest abates, and the sinners were spared for the time.
But as the images of the imagination fade, and the action of fear abates, the essential qualities of the man reassert themselves.
When danger threatens, countrymen often move inside the walls until the danger abates.
When the fury of the north wind abates, it is succeeded by fine weather and a clear sky.

Similar words containing ABATE without suffix s

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