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unabates

unabates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unabate.

Meaning of unabate

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

Questions about unabates

What is unabates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unabates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unabate.

Words near unabates in the dictionary

  1. unabate
  2. unabated
  3. unabatedly
  4. unabatedness
  5. unabatement
  6. unabates
  7. unabating
  8. unabatingly
  9. unabbreviable
  10. unabbreviatable
  11. unabbreviate

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