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abatement

noun
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The next budget may give us a tax abatement.

Synonyms

alleviation
mitigation
lessening
letup
diminution
decrease
slackening

Antonyms

intensification
increase
Thicker walls contribute to noise abatement.

Synonyms

suppression
termination
ending
end
cessation
The abatement of flooding resulted from drier weather.

Synonyms

subsidence
decline
sinking
way
ebb
slack
fade-out
fading
 Synonyms for abatement from Random House Roget's College Thesaurus, Revised and Updated Edition © 2000 Random House, Inc.

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