AMATE

AMA'TE, verb intransitive [See Mate.] To accompany; also to terrify, to perplex. [Not used.]

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A‐mate″ (�), v. t. [[OF. amater, amatir.]] To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt. The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.