unabated

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   continuing without becoming weaker, less intense, or less extensive

   Public opposition to the decree continued unabated throughout the winter.

Formed from un-, 'not,' and abated, the past participle of abate. Abate came through Old French abatre, 'to beat down or reduce,' from a- plus battre, 'to beat'; unabated therefore means literally 'not reduced.'

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