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bated

ADJ ซึ่ง น้อยลง  sueng-noi-long

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BATED

BATED Bat "ed, a.

 

Defn: Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Macaulay.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bated

bat ed |ˈbātid beɪdɪd | ▶adjective (in phrase with bated breath ) in great suspense; very anxiously or excitedly: he waited for a reply to his offer with bated breath. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from the past participle of obsolete bate ‘restrain, ’ from abate . usage: The spelling baited breath instead of bated breath is a common mistake. Almost a third of citations for this idiom in the Oxford English Corpus are for the incorrect spelling.

 

Oxford Dictionary

bated

bated |ˈbeɪtɪd | ▶adjective (in phrase with bated breath ) in great suspense; very anxiously or excitedly: he waited for a reply to his offer with bated breath. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from the past participle of obsolete bate ‘restrain ’, from abate . usage: The spelling baited breath instead of bated breath is a common mistake. Almost a third of citations for this idiom in the Oxford English Corpus are for the incorrect spelling.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bated

bat ed /béɪtɪd /形容詞 ⦅かたく ⦆不安な, 気がかりな . with b à ted br é ath 息を殺して, 心配して .

 

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