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[ verb ] become less in amount or intensity
Examples "The storm abated" "The rain let up after a few hours" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)The storms of the past had died_away , and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not_yet begun to disturb men 's minds . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)The music died_away discordantly . |
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