BATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bated mean? 

• BATED (adjective)
  The adjective BATED has 1 sense:

1. diminished or moderated

  Familiarity information: BATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diminished or moderated

Context example:

his bated hopes

Similar:

decreased; reduced (made less in size or amount or degree)

 Context examples 

“And the wood and stone, holy father?” asked Alleyne, with bated breath, as he stared awe-struck at his precious relics.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was looking on with bated breath, leaning slightly forward, so keen was her interest, one hand pressed to her breast, her cheek flushed, and in her eyes a great and amazed admiration.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Poole disinterred the axe from under a stack of packing straw; the candle was set upon the nearest table to light them to the attack; and they drew near with bated breath to where that patient foot was still going up and down, up and down, in the quiet of the night.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We started, certainly; but in spite of the hot sun and the staring daylight, the pirates no longer ran separate and shouting through the wood, but kept side by side and spoke with bated breath.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

One afternoon he went out with Arthur to the University of California, and, with bated breath and a feeling of religious awe, went through the laboratories, saw demonstrations, and listened to a physics professor lecturing to his classes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)