Answer: ABATE
ABATE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 79 times.
Referring Clues:
- Diminish in intensity
 - Drop off
 - Diminish
 - Decrease
 - Die down
 - Moderate
 - Lessen
 - Let up
 - Ease off
 - Fall off
 - Taper off
 - Ease
 - Go down
 - Weaken
 - Slacken
 - Tail off
 - Wane
 - Stem
 - Subside
 - Peter out
 - Lessen, as a storm
 - Slack off
 - Reduce
 - Ease up
 - Become less intense
 - Ebb
 - Lose intensity
 - Wind down
 - Lull
 - Settle down
 - Cool
 - Quiet down
 - Decrease in strength
 - Dwindle
 - Recede
 - Fall back
 - Slow
 - Slacken off
 - Quash, in law
 - Cut down
 - Grow less
 - Decrease in intensity
 - Let up, as a storm
 - Back off
 - Fade away
 - Reduce in intensity
 - End, as a nuisance
 - Calm down
 - Die away
 - Lower
 - Reduce, as taxes
 - Diminish, as a nuisance
 - Tone down
 - Fall
 - Diminish in strength
 - Slacken up
 - Ebb away
 - Lose steam
 - Cut back
 - Taper off, as wind
 - Lessen in intensity
 - Lose strength, as a storm
 - Drop in intensity
 - Decline
 - Lessen in strength
 - Let up, as rain
 - Subside, as a storm
 - Gradually lessen
 - Make less intense
 - Lessen, as the tide
 - Lessen gradually
 - Deintensify
 - Decline slowly
 - Snowball's opposite
 - Fade slowly
 - Die down, as a storm
 - Ease up, as a storm
 - Lose strength
 - Go from worse to bad, say
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 08, 2025
 - LA Times - July 15, 2025
 - LA Times - June 21, 2025
 - New York Times - May 13, 2025
 - USA Today - April 02, 2025
 - USA Today - March 04, 2025
 - LA Times - February 13, 2025
 - LA Times - February 08, 2025
 - LA Times - January 27, 2025
 - USA Today - November 28, 2024
 - USA Today - September 24, 2024
 - USA Today - September 02, 2024
 - USA Today - August 21, 2024
 - New York Times - August 20, 2024
 - New York Times - June 23, 2024
 - New York Times - May 13, 2024
 - LA Times - April 11, 2024
 - LA Times - March 27, 2024
 - New York Times - January 30, 2024
 - USA Today - August 21, 2023
 
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