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6-letter words (1 found)

ABATER,

5-letter words (5 found)

ABATE,ABEAR,RABAT,REATA,TABER,

4-letter words (17 found)

ABER,ABET,ARBA,AREA,ARET,BARE,BATE,BEAR,BEAT,BETA,BRAE,BRAT,RATA,RATE,TARA,TARE,TEAR,

3-letter words (22 found)

ABA,ARB,ARE,ART,ATE,BAA,BAE,BAR,BAT,BET,BRA,EAR,EAT,ERA,ETA,RAT,REB,RET,TAB,TAE,TAR,TEA,

2-letter words (13 found)

AA,AB,AE,AR,AT,BA,BE,EA,ER,ET,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 59 words from abater according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of abater

abater

Etymology

abate +‎ -er

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbeɪ.tɚ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

abater (plural abaters)

  1. One who, or that which, abates. [From 16th century.]
    • 1908, John H. Wallace, Preservation of the Game, Fish and Forests of Alabama, address given before the Alabama Press Association, 23 July, 1908, State Printers and Binders, p. 6,[3]
      As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.

Translations

Anagrams

  • bat ear, rabate, trabea

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese abater (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere. Compare Portuguese abater, Spanish abatir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abaˈteɾ/

Verb

abater (first-person singular present abato, first-person singular preterite abatín, past participle abatido)
abater (first-person singular present abato, first-person singular preterite abatim or abati, past participle abatido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (transitive) to bend, lower
    Synonyms: abaixar, amoucar
    1. to bring the grapevine and its tendrils to the beams and props prepared for growing it
  2. (transitive) to overthrow, to throw down
  3. (transitive) to defeat
  4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to bend, lean
  5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to become dispirited

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • abatíbel

Related terms

  • bater

References

  • “abater” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “abat” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “abater” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “abater” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “abater” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese abater, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere. Compare Galician abater, Spanish abatir.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧ba‧ter

Verb

abater (first-person singular present abato, first-person singular preterite abati, past participle abatido)

  1. (intransitive) to collapse
  2. (intransitive) to topple
  3. (transitive) to slaughter
  4. (intransitive) to abate, weaken
  5. (transitive) to reduce

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • abatedouro

Related terms

  • bater

Further reading

  • “abater” in iDicionário Aulete.
  • “abater” in Dicionário inFormal.
  • “abater” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
  • “abater” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  • “abater” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
  • “abater” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Source: wiktionary.org