And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days. .

The storm has gradually abated.

The snowstorm gradually abated.

And God remembered Noah, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated.

The heat won't abate.

My anger and jealousy abated.

The storm abated.

The storm didn't abate for several hours.

The fever has abated.

The Tyrians, yielding to the god, abate / their fierceness. Dido, more than all the rest, / warms to her Phrygian friends, and wears a kindly breast.