Usually means: Reduce intensity or force; moderate.
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  1. bate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bate, bate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bate, bate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bate, bate: Wordnik
  7. Bate, bate: Wiktionary
  8. bate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bate, bate, bate: Dictionary.com
  12. bate (1), bate (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. BATE, Bate (disambiguation), Bate (surname), Bate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bate: Rhymezone
  17. Bate, bate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. bate: Free Dictionary
  20. bate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. bate: Legal dictionary

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  1. bate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. bate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BATE: Acronym Finder
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  3. bate: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bate, bate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. b.a.t.e, bate: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bate: A Few Falconry Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bate)

verb:  (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
verb:  (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
verb:  (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To leave out, except, bar.
verb:  To waste away.
verb:  To deprive of.
verb:  To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
verb:  To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
noun:  Strife; contention.
verb:  (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
verb:  (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
noun:  An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
noun:  A vat which contains this liquid.
verb:  (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
noun:  A surname transferred from the given name.
noun:  A town in Comoé province, Burkina Faso.
noun:  A village in Nova Gorica municipality, Slovenia.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) Clipping of masturbate. [(intransitive) To stimulate oneself sexually, especially by use of one’s hand or a sex toy made for this purpose, often to the point of ejaculation or orgasm.]

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