abatement

abatement — noun

1. a fall in how strong, large, or painful something is — for example, a drop in no

1.名詞C1
釋義

a fall in how strong, large, or painful something is — for example, a drop in noise from a building site, or a slow easing of a fever after medicine.

例句

Residents demanded an abatement of the loud noise from the nearby quarry.

abatement of + noun (the cause being reduced)

Doctors saw a slow abatement in Pia's fever after two days of antibiotics.

abatement in + noun (the thing whose level falls)

同義詞
  • reduction

    much more everyday; works in any register

  • easing

    softer, often about pressure, pain, or rules

  • decrease

    neutral, simply means a smaller amount

  • mitigation

    formal; stresses that someone acts to make it less bad

反義詞

文法句型

abatement of + noun

abatement in + noun

用法筆記

Mostly used in formal writing — news reports, legal documents, and medical notes. Often paired with abstract nouns naming pain, noise, weather, prices, or debt. The fixed phrase 'no abatement' is more common than positive forms in everyday news.

常見錯誤

❌I want an abatement from my homework.
✅I want a break from my homework.
💡'abatement' describes a fall in something measurable like noise or pain, not a personal pause from a task.
❌The company gave each worker an abatement.
✅The company gave each worker a discount.
💡'abatement' refers to the act of reducing, not to the money or item handed over.

2. work done to cut the amount of harmful gases, chemicals, or other waste that fac

2.名詞C2
釋義

work done to cut the amount of harmful gases, chemicals, or other waste that factories, vehicles, or power plants release into the air, water, or soil.

例句

The new factory in Kaohsiung spent millions on carbon abatement equipment last year.

modifier use: carbon abatement equipment

Engineers are testing a cheaper way to achieve abatement of sulphur from coal smoke.

abatement of + named pollutant

同義詞
  • mitigation

    wider; covers any action that reduces a harm, not only emissions

  • control

    everyday word; 'pollution control' is more common in news than 'abatement'

  • reduction

    neutral and simpler; 'emissions reduction' is the plainer term

反義詞
  • emission

    the act of releasing the pollutant in the first place

文法句型

[type] + abatement

abatement of + pollutant

用法筆記

Distinguish from sense 1: this sense always sits inside an environmental, public-health, or engineering context, and the thing being reduced is a pollutant or nuisance (carbon, methane, noise, dust). Almost always used as a modifier: 'X abatement', where X names the harmful thing.

常見錯誤

❌The wind helped the abatement of the smoke.
✅The wind helped the smoke clear.
💡'abatement' here means planned human action against pollution, not natural weather effects.
❌He works in abatement.
✅He works in pollution abatement.
💡the field needs a modifier (carbon, noise, asbestos) to make sense to readers.