Junaid Aslam
Your topics are home and garden. Could you mean "a bait" as in bug bait?
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pythonlover
ROMOS
Abate [uh-beyt] Show IPA verb, a·bat·ed, a·bat·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax; to abate one's enthusiasm.
2.
Law .
a.
to put an end to or suppress (a nuisance).
b.
to suspend or extinguish (an action).
c.
to annul (a writ).
3.
to deduct or subtract: to abate part of the cost.
4.
to omit: to abate all mention of names.
5.
to remove, as in stone carving, or hammer down, as in metalwork, (a portion of a surface) in order to produce a figure or pattern in low relief.
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