* 강도나 양이 점점 줄어드는 경우

1)become weaker in degree, intensity or in amount
    = decrease

Your enthusiasm for skiing might abates after falling off a ski lift and getting a mouthful of snow.

We waited for the wind to abate.

The recessin is not expected to abate until year's end.

2)make less intense

The town abated taxes on new businesses.

The bath was the only thing that abated the pain and fever.

[ 類似語 ]

*dwindle : to become steadily less
Our energy dwindled as the meeing dragged.

*ebb :
① flow out : Her popularity is on the ebb.
② a point of decline : US-Russia relations are at their lowest ebb.

*let up : a lessening of effort, intensity
The rain let up after few hours.
The downpour continued for hours without let up.

* pall : lose strenth, interest
Even the impressive scenery began to pall on me after a few miles

*relent : to become less severe
They had refused to pay and relented only after being threatened with a lawsuit.

* remit 
①send money : to remit $25
② release from 세금, 벌금 등을 면제  : to remit taxes
③ diminish abate

* subside 아래로 내려않다.
sink down ,become less violent , die down , sink down
   
The applause subsided
to subside into an armchair
      

* taper :
①to diminish gradually
Sales of comic magazines are beginning to taper off

②뾰쪽하게하다 : point sharpen
The candles are tapered

*wane : a gradual decline
 Interest in his novels waned
 The moon waxes and wanes
 

[反意語]

* burgeon : become larger, greater,or bigger = expand
Plants burgeon from every available space.
The city beefed up the police force to crack down on burgeoning prostitution. 경찰력을 증강시키다.

* soar : rise rapidly
the dollar soared against the yen

*ratchet up : 단계적으로 증가시키다.
 ratchet effect 톱니효과