What is the difference between abate and bate? How are they used differently? Do they both mean the same thing? (from the Free Dictionary) The definition of abate is 'to reduce in amount, degree,...
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Bait, yes. There was a question about "bate" the other day, but here we are not making the wolf shorter...
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