abate
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To become less intense or widespread, or to make something do so.
Only when the storm abated could the rescue boats set out.
Law verb
To bring a nuisance to an end or reduce it.
The council served notice requiring the factory to abate the persistent noise nuisance.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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