- baited / bated
- Baited usually refers to traps: Baiting deer in order to hunt them is illegal in most states.Bated is seldom used but means "reduced, abated": Jessica waited with bated breath for news of her success.
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baited / bated
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baited / bated — Baited usually refers to traps: Baiting deer in order to hunt them is illegal in most states. Bated is seldom used but means reduced, abated : Jessica waited with bated breath for news of her success … Confused words
bated breath — not baited. Bated is a cousin of abated and so implies something that is withheld … Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors
bated breath — If someone says they re waiting with bated breath, they re very excited and find it difficult to be patient.( Baited breath is a common mistake.) … The small dictionary of idiomes
baited — c.1600, furnished with bait, pp. adj. from BAIT (Cf. bait) (n.). Hence, in a figurative sense, exciting, alluring (1650s). For bated breath see BATE (Cf. bate) (1) … Etymology dictionary
bated — adjective (in phr. with bated breath) in great suspense. Origin C16: from the past participle of obs. bate restrain , from abate. Usage The correct phrase is with bated breath not with baited breath … English new terms dictionary
bated, with - breath — I can t get this fish hook out of my mouth! said Tom, with baited breath … English expressions
with bated breath — if you wait for something with bated breath, you feel very excited or anxious while you are waiting. His name wasn t by any chance, Max Peters? Helena asked with bated breath. We were waiting with baited breath for the prizes to be announced … New idioms dictionary
with baited breath — misspelling of with bated breath … Useful english dictionary
Baile Atha Cliath — Gaelic for Dublin. baited breath is wrong; breath is bated … Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors
bait, bate — Robins exploits were listened to with baited breath (Mailon Sunday). Unless Robins listeners were hoping to catch fish, their breath was bated. The word is a cousin of abated … Dictionary of troublesome word
