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What (who) is Abolish - definition
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Abolishment; Abolition movement; Abolish; Abolition (disambiguation)
abolish
(abolishes, abolishing, abolished)
If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it.
The following year Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty for murder...
VERB: V n
abolish
¦ verb formally put an end to (a practice or institution).
Derivatives
abolishable adjective
abolisher noun
abolishment noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. aboliss-, lengthened stem of abolir, from L. abolere 'destroy'.
abolish
v. a.
1.
Abrogate, annul, disannul, repeal, rescind, revoke, cancel, nullify, quash, vacate, invalidate, set aside, make void.
2.
Destroy, overthrow, subvert, obliterate, extirpate, eradicate, annihilate, extinguish, suppress, do away, put an end to, make an end of, batter down, raze to the ground, not to leave one stone upon another, crush out, stamp out, squelch (colloq.). See disestablish.
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Abolition
Abolition refers to the act of putting an end to something by law, and may refer to:
- Abolitionism, abolition of slavery
- Abolition of the death penalty, also called capital punishment
- Abolition of monarchy
- Abolition of nuclear weapons
- Abolition of prisons
- Police abolition movement
- Abolition of suffering
- Abolitionism (animal rights), related to veganism
- Abolition of time zones
- Abolition of borders
Examples of use of Abolish
1. We will abolish the university examination system.
2. Or, alternatively abolish the devolved parliaments.
3. Today‘s Tories oppose the climate–change levy, plan to abolish the New Deal, are withdrawing to the anti–European, extremist, right–wing fringe and would abolish tax credits.
4. So I reject representations to abolish the climate change levy.
5. Dr Williams should admit as much and abolish the episcopacy.