The pain abated and she waited a few minutes.
The rifle fire abated and the ground shook with the drumming of hooves.
The hunger abated, and she dropped her head back to the pillow, satisfied.
However as the weather front moved through the wind abated and with it came sunshine and a changing wind direction.
The spiritual habit abated no whit of his inborn sagacity, and it is said that in his later years political leaders found no shrewder sage with whom to take counsel.