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name
A surname transferred from the given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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name
A town in Comoé province, Burkina Faso.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A village in Nova Gorica municipality, Slovenia.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Strife; contention.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
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noun
A vat which contains this liquid.
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noun
direction, course, track
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Usage: Ireland, uncountable
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verb
To reduce the force of something; to abate.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To cut off, remove, take away.
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Usage: figuratively, sometimes, transitive
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verb
To leave out, except, bar.
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Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To waste away.
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verb
To deprive of.
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verb
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
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verb
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
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verb
To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Of a falcon: to flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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verb
To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
simple past of beat; = beat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, nonstandard, obsolete, past
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verb
Clipping of masturbate.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, intransitive, slang
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verb
soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
verb
flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons
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Broader terms: beat, flap
verb
moderate or restrain; lessen the force of
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Broader terms: control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
History
From a diminutive form of Bartholomew.
* Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate. * Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.
Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).
Variant of beat (“rhythm”).
Inherited from Middle English baten (“to abate”), an apheretic form of abaten, from Old French abatre (“to knock down”).
Formed by analogy with eat → ate or other Class 5 strong verbs (compare gave, obsolete spake, etc.), with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten → beaten).
Across languages
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