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
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    "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."
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    bate