How to pronounce “abutment” in English

In a later interview he admitted, "I did say to myself, I could drive down the Maine Turnpike at a hundred miles an hourand deliberately drive into a bridge abutment.That would be the end and all of this would go away.

Similar thoughts had no doubt wondered to the mind of the rest of us, but we were wary of articulating them.At the base of an abutment, squeezing out of a crevice, was a flower newly blossomed.

And when it was built in 1912, they did not know whether the glaciers were going to expand and tear it away or not,but it had to be built in the depth of the winter while the river was completely frozen up so that if it were completed abutmentto abutment, before a breakup, it would probably hold.