1. To reply or respond to; SYN. reply, respond.
2. To give the correct answer or solution to.
3. To give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument).
4. To be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of.
5. To be liable or accountable.
6. To match or correspond.
7. To react to a stimulus or command.
8. To respond to a signal. + prikaži više

To lay bare

1. To decrease in size, extent, or range; SYN. diminish, lessen, fall.
2. To make smaller; SYN. lessen, minify.

1. To observe carefully or inspect.
2. To question closely.

1. To take and lift upward; SYN. lift up, gather up.
2. To take up by hand
3. To lift out or reflect from a background, as of a color
4. To receive perceptual input: receive a signal, receive news, receive a verdict, etc.; SYN. receive.
5. To give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift.
6. To get in addition, as an increase
7. To buy casually or spontaneously
8. To meet someone for sexual purposes
9. When the speed, level, or condition of something increases or improves, it picks up. + prikaži više

1. To make slender; decrease the size of
2. To become slender

1. To pull down or dismantle; to pull to pieces
2. To record; to write down

1. To mimic or imitate, esp. in an amusing or satirical manner
2. To prove fatal
3. To remove clothes
4. To take away or remove,
5. To take off from the ground, as of an aircraft or balloon; SYN. lift off.
6. To take time off from work; stop working temporarily; SYN. take time off.
When an airplane leaves the ground and flies up into the air, it takes off.
When a business or other organized activity becomes very successful, it takes off. + prikaži više

To confirm the truth of.

(Homonym: wain).
1. To become smaller.
2. To decrease in phase.

ETYM Old Fren. abatement, French abattement.
The act of abating.
Law obsolete, unlawful entry by stranger onto land between death of possessor and entry of heir; Heraldry, mark on arms to indicate bastardy.