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bate
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Definition:1. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.2. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.3. To leave out; to except. [Obs.]4. To remove. [Obs.]5. To deprive of. [Obs.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---the most common contemporary use is "bated breath", otherwise rare
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She stood with her slender arms hanging down, her scarcely defined bosom rising and falling regularly, and with bated breath and glittering, frightened eyes gazed straight before her, evidently prepared for the height of joy or misery.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
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I could not have bated him an ace had he been my own father; and as for the subject, such another does not present itself once in half a century.'
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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“And I should do so as certainly, bating sickness or death, as that two and two make four.”
Sir Walter Scott. Rob Roy (1817)
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With, hoo! such bugs and goblins in my life-
That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,
No, not to stay the finding of the axe,
My head should be struck off.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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