abate

Police officials said the problem abated quickly after the program began.

Once that was done, her use for him should abate.

In the course of the next few hours, their fear abated.

After so many years, the sense of loss had not abated.

By then the pain had abated some, and I could think.

She expected the pressure to abate, but it did not.

"Perhaps then the call will be better understood and abated."

The war, which has been going on for several years, shows no sign of abating.

Most likely, nothing would be known until the rain abated the next morning.

The wind was abating now, almost all of the air had gone.

The terror in the young man's eyes did not abate.

The fire in her eyes abated, and she took a deep breath.

But they understood why, and knew how to abate it.

Why not simply abate the problems that had caused the war?

In the early night, waiting for the rain to abate.

People are to stay inside until the winds abate a little, she says.

Yet the decision to rest did not abate her tension.

It was not for his friend to abate that confidence.

In these cases the infection abates after three to four days.

After a few minutes the feeling abated, though it did not go away entirely.

At the same time, the sounds they had been hearing abated.

It took several minutes more before the noise abated enough for anyone to be heard.

Both were accepted by the others, but their differences would never abate.

The wars did not abate after the series came to an end in 2001.

The noise had never abated, but now I heard it for the first time.