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abate 1 VERB to abate here means to lessen or diminish
There lives within the very flame of love/A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it (Hamlet 4.7) 2 VERB to abate here means to shorten
Abate thy hours (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.2) 3 VERB to abate here means to deprive
She hath abated me of half my train (King Lear 2.4)
abjure VERB to abjure means to renounce or give up
this rough magic I here abjure (Tempest 5.1)
abroad ADV abroad means elsewhere or everywhere
You have heard of the news abroad (King Lear 2.1)
abrogate VERB to abrogate means to put an end to
so it shall praise you to abrogate scurrility (Love’s Labours Lost 4.2)
abuse 1 NOUN abuse in this context means deception or fraud
What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?/Or is it some abuse, and no such thing? (Hamlet 4.7) 2 NOUN an abuse in this context means insult or offence
I will be deaf to pleading and excuses/Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase our abuses (Romeo and Juliet 3.1) 3 NOUN an abuse in this context means using something improperly
we’ll digest/Th’abuse of distance (Henry II Chorus) 4 NOUN an abuse in this context means doing something which is corrupt or dishonest
Come, bring them away: if these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but their abuses in common houses, I know no law: bring them away. (Measure for Measure 2.1)
abuser NOUN the abuser here is someone who betrays, a betrayer
I … do attach thee/For an abuser of the world (Othello 1.2)
accent NOUN accent here means language
In states unborn, and accents yet unknown (Julius Caesar 3.1)
accident NOUN an accident in this context is an event or something that happened
think no more of this night’s accidents (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4.1)
accommodate VERB to accommodate in this context means to equip or to give someone the equipment to do something
The safer sense will ne’er accommodate/His master thus. (King Lear 4.6)
according ADJ according means sympathetic or ready to agree
within the scope of choice/Lies my consent and fair according voice (Romeo and Juliet 1.2)
account NOUN account often means judgement (by God) or reckoning
No reckoning made, but sent to my account/With all my imperfections on my head (Hamlet 1.5)
accountant ADJ accountant here means answerable or accountable
