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bated
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bated has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
bated, a.
Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bated, adj.
Idiom
with bated breath very anxiously.
Etymology
past part. of obs. bate (v.) restrain, f. ABATE
THESAURUS
bated
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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