Metaglossary.com - Definitions for "{term}"

Keywords: daring, feats, acrobats, restrained, breath

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.

held back; "we watched the daring feats of the acrobats with bated breath"

Keywords: enthusiasm, hopes, diminished, moderated, his

diminished or moderated; "our bated enthusiasm"; "his bated hopes"