[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bate \bate\, v. t. imp.  p. p. bated; p. pr.  vb. n.
   bating. from abate.
   1. to lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to
      abate; to beat down; to lower.
      1913 webster

            he must either bate the laborer's wages, or not
            employ or not pay him.                --locke.
      1913 webster

   2. to allow by way of abatement or deduction.
      1913 webster

            to whom he bates nothing of what he stood upon with
            the parliament.                       --south.
      1913 webster

   3. to leave out; to except. obs.
      1913 webster

            bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood,
            he lies that says it.                 --beau.  fl.
      1913 webster

   4. to remove. obs.
      1913 webster

            about autumn bate the earth from about the roots of
            olives, and lay them bare.            --holland.
      1913 webster

   5. to deprive of. obs.
      1913 webster

            when baseness is exalted, do not bate
            the place its honor for the person's sake.
                                                  --herbert.
      1913 webster
see also:
bated bating 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bated \bat"ed\, a.
   reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
   --macaulay.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bated
     adj 1: held back; "we watched the daring feats of the acrobats with
            bated breath"
     2: diminished or moderated; "our bated enthusiasm"; "his bated
        hopes"

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

44 moby thesaurus words for "bated":
   abated, ablated, attenuated, belittled, consumed, contracted,
   curtailed, damped, dampened, dead, deadened, decreased, deflated,
   diminished, dissipated, dropped, dull, dulled, eroded, fallen,
   flat, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, muffled, muted,
   reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken,
   smaller, smothered, softened, sordo, stifled, subdued,
   watered-down, weakened, worn

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