The floods had abated and the Rajah was officially dead, so the Guest House party were departing next morning, as decorum required.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
But although, at my father’s desire, each of these suggestions was given an immediate trial, it was not for two months, and until I had been subjected to a heart-breaking period of starvation, that an affliction abated to which I have since been liable at any moment of undue excitement.
Henry Howarth Bashford, Augustus Carp, Esq.
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Merriam-Webster
— to decrease in force or intensity
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Macmillan
— to gradually become less serious or extreme
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Usage
1 use of ‘abated’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
1 use of ‘abated’ in Augustus Carp, Esq., by Henry Howarth Bashford