abated

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of abate

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:abated.”

adj

1. Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.
2. humbled.