abatement

1. 1.

   an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

   Synonymssuspensionrespitereprievehiatus

   Broaderinterruption

   Narrowerdefervescenceremission
2. 2.

   the act of abating

   “laws enforcing noise abatement”

   Broadermoderation

   Narrowerabatement of a nuisance

Other forms of abatement

plural

abatements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abatement

What does abatement mean?

abatement means "an interruption in the intensity or amount of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abatement?

abatement has 3 syllables: aba-te-ment. The stress falls on "te". In IPA it is /əˈbeɪtmənt/.

What is another word for abatement?

Close synonyms include suspension, respite, reprieve, hiatus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abatement a common word?

abatement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.