unabate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from unabated and unabating. See un- and abate.

Verb

unabate (third-person singular simple present unabates, present participle unabating, simple past and past participle unabated)

1. (rare, nonstandard) To continue without abating or after temporarily abating.
   • 2003, A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American literature: comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American fictions, page 93:

     The process unabates, whether Red Man chewing tobacco, the Indian Head nickel, barbershop manikins, paratroopers with their Geronimo shouts, or Boy Scout troop names

   • 2011, Stephen Elkin, Mirror in the Bathroom, page 69:

     Feeling the heat as the impact unabates. Hearing the screech as a body will not wait.