The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ABATED
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More clues leading to the result ABATED
- Died down and burned away, last of coal not needed
- Moderated bad temper displayed in commercial
- A time where you might find flowers grew less
- Jack, given wrong date, lowered
- A quiffed man on airline grew smaller
- Became more moderate in a short time when retired?
- Dropped off journalist on the trail of a vampire?
- Relaxed cricketer, opener for England, in poster
- . Centrally stable status, credit has reduced
- Dropped off after a short time in a cot?
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What does ABATED mean?
ABATED verb- (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
- To become null and void.
- To nullify; make void.
- To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
- To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
- To curtail; to deprive.
- To reduce in amount, size, or value.
- To decrease in size, value, or amount.
- To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
- To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
- To deduct or omit.
- To bar or except.
- To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
- To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
- To destroy, or level to the ground.
- To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
- (decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.