Abatement Synonyms

ə-bātmənt
An amount deducted
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. discount
  2. reduction
  3. deduction
  4. lessening
  5. decrease
  6. rebate
  7. allowance
  8. suspension
  9. diminution
  10. lull
  11. moderation
  12. respite
  13. decline
  14. myosis
  15. dulcification
  16. relaxation
  17. reprieve
  18. subsidence
  19. effemination
  20. hiatus
  21. price-cut
  22. tret
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The act or process of becoming less active or intense
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ebb
  2. letup
  3. remission
  4. slackening
  5. subsidence
  6. wane

Words Related to Abatement

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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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