Abatement synonyms

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decrease
A decreasing; lessening; diminution
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subsidence
The process of becoming less active or severe
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decline
​A weakening.
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ebb
A low state; a state of depression.
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lessening
A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.
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discount (related)
The amount by which the face value of a bond or other debt security exceeds its market price.
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reduction (related)
A reducing or being reduced
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allowance
A child's allowance; pocket money.
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deduction
An amount that is or may be deducted:
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diminution
The act or process of diminishing; a lessening or reduction.
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lull
A short period of quiet or of comparative calm, lessened activity, etc.
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moderation
Absence of violence; calmness
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myosis
Alternative spelling of miosis.
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rebate
A return of part of an amount paid, as for goods or services, serving as a reduction or discount
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curtailment
The act of curtailing
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cutback
A reduction in an existing program of some sort.
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decrement
A decreasing or decrease; loss; waste
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diminishment
The act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.
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drain
(Electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
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slash
A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.
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slowdown
The act or process of slowing down; a slackening of pace:
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taper
A gradual decrease in thickness or width of an elongated object.
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letup
A temporary stop; a pause.
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slackening
The act or process of becoming less active or intense
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wane
Wane is defined as a period of decline in size or intensity.
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increase (related)
An increasing or becoming increased
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respite
Respite is defined as a break or a rest.
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reprieve
The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
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hiatus
(Anatomy) An opening in an organ.
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allayment
Something that allays; mitigation
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dulcification
The act of dulcifying or sweetening.
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effemination
(Obsolete) effeminacy; womanishness
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price-cut
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tret
A fixed allowance by weight, after the deduction of tare, formerly made to buyers of certain commodities to compensate for waste and deterioration during transit
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mitigation (related)
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remediation (related)
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pollution control (related)
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cut
A cutting or being cut
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remission
A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
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suspension
The definition of a suspension is a device or framework that supports weight.
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evisceration
A vigorous verbal assault
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Abatement Sentence Examples

  • His obesity did not cause any abatement of activity when next he took the field.

  • The notice must require the abatement of the nuisance within a specified time, and must prescribe the works which in the opinion of the council are necessary to be done.

  • If at least half of the harvest in any year is destroyed by accident, the lessee (a) in the case of a lease for several years, obtains, at the end of his lease, a refund of rent, by way of indemnity, unless he has been indemnified by preceding harvests; (b) in the case of a lease for a year only, may secure a proportional abatement of the current rent.

  • The proceedings against him were revived, a committee of privileges deciding on the 19th of March 1679 that the dissolution of parliament was no abatement of an impeachment.

  • The remission or abatement lasts generally throughout the morning; and about noon there is an exacerbation, seldom ushered in by chills, which continues till the early morning following, when it remits or abates as before.

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