Meaning of BATED
| Pronunciation: | | 'beytid
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- [adj] diminished or moderated; "our bated enthusiasm"; "his bated hopes"
- [adj] held back; "we watched the daring feats of the acrobats with bated breath"
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| | Synonyms: | | decreased, reduced, restrained |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bat"ed\, a.
Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
--Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | abated, ablated, attenuated, belittled, consumed, contracted, curtailed, damped, dampened, dead, deadened, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, dropped, dull, dulled, eroded, fallen, flat, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, muffled, muted, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, smothered, softened, sordo, stifled, subdued, watered-down, weakened, worn |
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