To cut off, remove, take away.
To deprive of.
To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
To masturbate.
To waste away.
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
To reduce the force of something; to abate.
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
Strife; contention.
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
A vat which contains this liquid.
To destroy, make disappear.
To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
To be disintegrated by such immersion.
To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
To resolve itself as by dissolution.
To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
To liquify, melt into a fluid.
To be melted, changed into a fluid.
To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next