Definitions for bating

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bating bat·ing

Spelling: [bey-ting]

IPA: /ˈbeɪ tɪŋ/

Bating is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in bating (abgint).

Definitions for bating

noun

1. a state of violent anger or fear.
2. the solution used.

Idioms

1. with bated breath, with breath drawn in or held because of anticipation or suspense:

preposition

1. with the exception of; excluding.

verb (used with object)

1. to moderate or restrain:
2. to lessen or diminish; abate:

verb (used without object)

1. to diminish or subside; abate.
2. (of a hawk) to flutter its wings and attempt to escape in a fit of anger or fear.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Tanning. to soak (leather) after liming in an alkaline solution to soften it and remove the lime.

Origin of bating

1560-70; aphetic variant of abating. See abate

Examples for bating

I thought you was bating him, so, as I had some business to attind to, I went away.

Now (bating the honeymoon), I do not agree with his lordship.

bating our own bed, which she could not share, what lot more distinguished than hers?

For “bating on a full crop” is to be particularly avoided at all times.

Not quite so fine a fellow, though, 'bating his Scotch honesty.

Yesterday I re-read English Bards;—bating the malice, it is the best.

bating the article of inquisitiveness, they are as polite as courtiers.

“bating a process-sarver, your Rivirence,” replied Tom, promptly.

And I should do so as certainly, bating sickness or death, as that two and two make four.

Closely similar to bating is "puering," investigated by Wood (see p. 94).