A damp cloth was quickly applied and the pain abated slightly, but didn't entirely go away.

When the pain had abated somewhat, he used the rock to beat the glass out of the window to the left of the door.

The pain hadn't abated one bit, and the light hurt his eyes.

She gave him a damp washcloth to suck on and the pain had abated.

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

I sat spellbound for nearly an hour, until the exquisite pain of that knowledge abated.

The pain in his foot had abated a little.

He rested like that for a while until the pain in his shoulder abated a little.

Suddenly, he says, the pain abated, allowing him to look back on his life and understand it with a new overview.

He slapped it off, but the pain did not abate.