bated

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: bat=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

bated, a. 

 Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bated, adj.

Idiom

with bated breath very anxiously.

Etymology

past part. of obs. bate (v.) restrain, f. ABATE

THESAURUS

bated

abated, ablated, attenuated, belittled, consumed, contracted, curtailed, damped, dampened, dead, deadened, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, dropped, dull, dulled, eroded, fallen, flat, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, muffled, muted, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, smothered, softened, sordo, stifled, subdued, watered-down, weakened, worn