baten

• IPA^(key): /baten/
• Rhymes: -aten, -en
• Hyphenation: ba‧ten

baten

1. genitive indefinite of bat

baten

1. genitive indefinite of bat
2. genitive plural of bat

baten

1. genitive of bat

baten

1. inessive indefinite inanimate of bat

   Synonym: batean

baten

1. inessive inanimate of bat

   Synonym: batean

baten

1. third-person plural present indicative of batre

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːtə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧ten
• Rhymes: -aːtən

From Middle Dutch baten, from Old Dutch *baton, from Proto-West Germanic *batēn, from Proto-Germanic *batāną, from the same root as beter.

baten

1. (transitive and intransitive) to avail

   Het mocht niet baten.

   It was to no avail.

• uitbaten
• baat het niet, dan schaadt het niet

• Negerhollands: baet

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

baten

1. plural of baat

baten

1. third-person plural present indicative of bater

• IPA^(key): /baːtən/

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• Homophone: Barten (some speakers)
• Rhymes: -aːtn̩

baten

1. first/third-person plural preterite of bitten

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːtən/, /ˈbatən/

Borrowed from Old French batre, from Latin battere, for earlier battuere; doublet of bateren.

• bate, battyn, batyn

baten (third-person singular simple present bateth, present participle batende, batynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle bated) (uncommon)

1. To batter; to forcefully or repetitively beat or whack.
2. To fight or strive; to be in conflict with.
3. To quarrel, brawl, or wrangle.
4. (rare) To pat; to gently and lightly touch.
5. (rare, of an animal) To flap one's limbs.

• English: bat; bate
• Scots: bat, batt

• “batten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

An aphetic form of abaten.

• batyn

baten (third-person singular simple present bateth, present participle batende, batynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle bated) (uncommon)

1. To dwindle or stop; to no longer occur (as much)
2. To halt or slow; to cause to lessen or abate.
   1. To reassure or hearten; to free of worry.
   2. (rare) To eliminate a collective irrational emotion.
   3. (in negations) To eliminate a positive attitude.
3. To abase or humiliate; to break haughtiness.

• English: bate; bat

• “batten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

baten

1. third-person plural present indicative of batir

From English button.

baten

1. button