Abatement refers generally to a lessening, diminution, reduction, or moderation; specifically, it may refer to:
- Abatement of debts and legacies, a common law doctrine of wills
- Abatement in pleading, a legal defense to civil and criminal actions based purely on procedural and technical issues involving the death of parties
- Abatement (heraldry), a modification of the shield or coat of arms that supposedly can be imposed by authority (in England supposedly by the Court of Chivalry) for misconduct
- Asbestos abatement
- Bird abatement, driving or removing undesired birds from an area
- Dust abatement, the process of inhibiting the creation of excess soil dust, a pollutant that contributes to excess levels of particulate matter
- Graffiti abatement
- Nuisance abatement
Famous quotes containing the word abatement:
“The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cure is generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)