rebate

To make a rebate or rabbet in, as a piece of joinery or other work; rabbet.

To beat back; drive back by beating; fend or ward off; repulse.

To beat down; beat to bluntness; make obtuse or dull, literally or figuratively; blunt; bate.

To set or throw off; allow as a discount or abatement; make a drawback of. See the noun.

To draw back or away; withdraw; recede.