Bated
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adjective.
Reduced; lowered; restrained.
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adjective.
Reduced
;
lowered
;
restrained
; as, to speak with bated breath.
verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of
bate
.
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adjective.
diminished or moderated
Word Usage
"We also want capital-and I say this in bated breath and whispered humbleness, for there is not altogether lacking some symptom of that kind here."
Equivalent
decreased
reduced
Form
with bated breath
Rhyme
Words with the same terminal sound
abated
annotated
awaited
baited
belated
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
circularly-polarized
drawn-in
dvp
findest
fortifying
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
abated
ablated
attenuated
belittled
consumed
verb-stem
bate