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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ABA'TEMENT, n.
1. The act of abating; the state of being abated.
2. A reduction, removing, or pulling down as of a nuisance.
3. Diminution, decrease, or mitigation, as of grief or pain.
4. Deduction, sum withdraw, as from an account.
5. Overthrow, failure or defeat, as of a writ.
6. The entry of a stranger into a freehold after the death of the tenant, before the heir or devisee.
7. In heraldry, a mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, by which its dignity is debased for some stain on the character of the wearer.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something [syn: suspension, respite, reprieve, hiatus, abatement]
2: the act of abating; "laws enforcing noise abatement"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. the act or process of abating ; the state of being abated 2. an amount abated; especially a deduction from the full amount of a tax

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Abatement A*bate"ment (-ment), n. [OF. abatement, F. abattement.] 1. The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof. 2. The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed. 3. (Her.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon. 4. (Law) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. --Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Abatement means a reduction in the strength or power of something or the reduction of it. (FORMAL) ...the abatement of carbon dioxide emissions. ...noise abatement. N-UNCOUNT: also a N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Diminution, decrease, decrement, lessening, mitigation, moderation, assuagement, extenuation, remission. 2. Subsidence, decline, lowering, sinking, settling, wane, fading, evanishing, evanishment, ebb. 3. Discount, allowance, rebate, deduction, reduction, drawback.

Moby Thesaurus

abridgment, agio, allayment, alleviation, allowance, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, bank discount, blunting, breakage, calming, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, concession, contraction, cut, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, demulsion, depreciation, depression, devitalization, dilution, diminishment, diminution, discount, drawback, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, fatigue, hushing, inanition, kickback, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut, quietening, quieting, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, rollback, sagging, salvage, salving, scaling down, setoff, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, tare, tempering, thinning, time discount, trade discount, tranquilization, tret, underselling, weakening, write-off