abator

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbeɪt.ə/, /əˈbeɪt.ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧tor

From abate (“to enter without right after the owner dies and before the heir takes over”) +‎ -or.^[1] From Anglo-Norman.

abator (plural abators)

1. (law) a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee [Mid 16^th century.] ^[2]

From abate (“do away with”) +‎ -or.^[1] From Middle English, from Old French.

abator (plural abators)

1. (law) one who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance [Late 16^th century.] ^[2]

• abater
• abatement

• “abator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Tabora, rabato, robata

• IPA^(key): /abaˈtɔr/

abator

1. future infinitive of abatar

From French abattoir.

• IPA^(key): /abaˈtor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧tór

abator n (plural abatoare)

1. abattoir (arranged place where animals are slaughtered to obtain meat, under sanitary-veterinary control)

   Synonyms: belitoare, măcelărie, scaun, tăietorie, zalhana

2. (figuratively) massacre

   Synonym: masacru

3. slaughterhouse staff

• “abator”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025