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unabate

unabate verb: to continue without abating or after temporarily abating.

Verb

unabate (third-person singular simple present unabates, present participle unabating, simple past and past participle unabated)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) To continue without abating or after temporarily abating.
    • The process unabates, whether Red Man chewing tobacco, the Indian Head nickel, barbershop manikins, paratroopers with their Geronimo shouts, or Boy Scout troop names2003, A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American literature: comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American fictions, page 93
    • Feeling the heat as the impact unabates. Hearing the screech as a body will not wait.2011, Stephen Elkin, Mirror in the Bathroom, page 69

Forms of unabate

third-person singular presentunabates
present participleunabating
past participleunabated
pastunabated

Origin of unabate

Back-formation from unabated and unabating. See un- and abate.

Questions about unabate

What does unabate mean?
Unabate means to continue without abating or after temporarily abating.
What part of speech is unabate?
Unabate is a verb.
What is the past tense of unabate?
The past tense of unabate is unabated.

Words near unabate in the dictionary

  1. unabashedly
  2. unabashedness
  3. unabashing
  4. unabasht
  5. unabatable
  6. unabate
  7. unabated
  8. unabatedly
  9. unabatedness
  10. unabatement
  11. unabates

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