to make yourself or someone used to something new
- Similar:
- adapt
- Opposite:
- estrange
Advanced level · 11+ exam standard
abate
verb
to become less strong or less intense
Her fear did abate after her friend’s kind words.
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so old that it is no longer useful or fashionable
- Similar:
- outdated
- Opposite:
- fashionable
the distant past, especially ancient times
- Similar:
- ancient days
- Opposite:
- future
belonging to long ago and no longer in common use
- Similar:
- ancient
- Opposite:
- current
a written record of events in the order they happened
- Similar:
- record
to honour and remember a person or event
- Similar:
- remember
- Opposite:
- forget
the quality of always behaving or happening in the same way
- Similar:
- steadiness
- Opposite:
- change
to cut short or make smaller
- Similar:
- reduce
- Opposite:
- extend