Cryptic crossword clue
Paddy appearing in revival of ‘Separate Tables’ 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BATE

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What does BATE mean?

1. To reduce the force of something; to abate.
2. To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
3. (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away.
4. To leave out, except, bar.
5. To waste away.
6. To deprive of.
7. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
8. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

1. Strife; contention.

1. To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
2. Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.

1. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
2. A vat which contains this liquid.

1. To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.

1. To hit; strike
2. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
3. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
5. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
6. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
7. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
8. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
9. (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
10. To indicate by beating or drumming.
11. To tread, as a path.
12. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
13. To be in agitation or doubt.
14. To make a sound when struck.
15. To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
16. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
17. To arrive at a place before someone.
18. To have sexual intercourse.
19. To rob.

1. To masturbate.

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