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Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.
Dr. Frederick Leboyer

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IFReviews Dictionary

Abate
- To beat down; to overthrow.
- To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.
- To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
- To blunt.
- To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
- To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
- To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
- To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
- To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
- Abatement.


Eschew as if you were She

    Author
    W. M. Wellman

    Idiom
    English

    Authoring System
    Inform6

    Release Year
    2001