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abolish English

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What does abolish mean?
Definitions in simple English

abolish Verb

— When you abolish something, you end it by making it invalid or illegal. You usually use the word "abolish" in regard to laws or actions. The censorship law was abolished due to huge opposition by many people.

abolish

— verb do away with Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia

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abolish English » English

abrogate cancel annul repeal revoke remit get rid of do away with destroy abjure remove rescind nullify stop suppress eliminate annihilate void scrap ruin negate give up extirpate eradicate delete cease withdraw terminate strike out exterminate erase discontinue disannul cross out abate wipe out wind up waste uproot take away take root out rid resign recall quit quash put away put an end to put an end

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abolish · verb

Examples abolish examples

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Simple sentences

I would abolish all slaughterhouses, if I could.
We have to abolish all nuclear weapons, because they are deadly to mankind.
An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.
We must abolish the death penalty.
I will abolish capital punishment.
We should abolish the death penalty.
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
They decided to abolish the old restriction.
I intend to abolish slavery.
Christ did not abolish God's law.

Movie subtitles

Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death.
Therefore, we abolish them.
Abolish baseball for the duration of the emergency?
Do you really believe they would lay down their arms and abolish their slave camps?
I will abolish hereditary titles. all these things and more.
We hereby abolish all gates.
As for our whistle-blower, we abolish his suspension and end the whole matter.
The sky is blue. Abolish the past.
Together with Professor Lindt, we will produce a defensive weapon that will make all offensive nuclear weapons obsolete, and thereby. Abolish the terror of nuclear warfare.
It was he who killed the governor. and he is now the president of the new provisional government. whose first act it was, to abolish slavery.
And then I would abolish work.
It won't work if you abolish all work.
I shall abolish the army!
I'm really curious, after all, one doesn't abolish an army more than once in a lifetime, so I hope there won't be any complications.
They stand in the way of action. Therefore, we abolish them.
Circumstances force us to abolish etiquette and invent other codes of behaviour.
These meetings. if I could only find a way to abolish them.
We're gonna abolish it!
I abolish hunger strike!
I propose we abolish forever monsieur, madame, and mademoiselle by drinking my favorite Nussberger wine in brotherhood.
I am offering my services to your University of Leipzig a leading authority in my field. we will produce a defensive weapon that will make all offensive nuclear weapons and thereby. Abolish the terror of nuclear warfare.
As you know, for the past 20 years, the United Nations has worked throughout the Near East to abolish slave markets.
Do you want to abolish bounty hunting?
They want to abolish horse-carts but they don't care for us.
If the emerging nations of the Third World are to abolish imperialism colonialism, racism.
Now, the great king of heaven and earth. will abolish and annihilate this pride!
How would you both like to help abolish capital punishment?
Well, we're having our annual dinner dance next month. You have a dance to abolish capital punishment?
Abolish free prostitution..
You want to abolish constitutional practice!
The Southern Society intends to abolish it.
To abolish the monarchy overnight is impossible, especially here, in Russia. It can only be restricted by the law, like in Britain.
Instead of an almost humiliating failure he shed light on the urgent necessity not to improve universal suffrage but to abolish it.
If I abolish it I might as well leave town.
Then abolish it! - I didn't say it.

News and current affairs

Nowadays, it is associations such as Amnesty International and Hands Off Cain that push states to abolish capital punishment.
If we intend to abolish the gallows, we should also fight for the prevention of crime and against the inhumanity of many prisons.
The online protest that ensued undoubtedly played a role in the government's decision to abolish the system and arrest the officials involved in the case.
The central issue is a demand by all opposition parties and civil society groups to amend the 1971 constitution and abolish the 23-year-old State of Emergency that was imposed following Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981.
Following the Fed's example, the ECB should abolish its OMT program - which, according to Germany's Constitutional Court, does not comply with EU treaty law anyway.
Non-believers often have as strong and sound a sense of right and wrong as anyone, and have worked to abolish slavery and contributed to other efforts to alleviate human suffering.
The government should abolish coeducation.
Zhao, however, was the first to advocate giving autonomy back to the peasants and so initiated the first pilot tests to abolish the People's Commune.
Many argue that subsidies of any kind should never be countenanced, in part because they are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to abolish, even if they are no longer needed.
The role of politics is to elect majorities that can abolish regulations and regulatory bodies.
It will kill as it chooses, abolish women's rights, and indoctrinate schoolchildren with hatred and the ambition to be suicide bombers.
The US is often criticized for its refusal to abolish capital punishment.
The solution is not to abolish markets, but to re-moralize wants.
Europe's policy is to abolish extreme inequality and poverty by lavish unemployment compensation that puts a floor under the willingness of people to accept poor jobs.
In view of this experience, Nigeria now plans to abolish the naira in favor of joining a monetary union with four or five other West African countries (The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and perhaps Liberia).
The decision by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to abolish the post of Commissioner for Enlargement has been seen as highly symbolic, leaving many in search of an alternative model.
Back in his radical days, Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, famously quipped that if voting changed anything, they would abolish it.
Prime Minister David Cameron's government announced last July that it intended to abolish the HFEA by 2014, along with the Human Tissue Authority, which deals with non-reproductive tissues.
The Assembly's opening action had been to vote almost unanimously to abolish the 239-year-old monarchy, and in June former King Gyanendra Shah departed from the palace, remaining in the country as an ordinary citizen.
And it should abolish its remaining strict import quotas for Ukrainian goods.
No one believes that a formal Charter amendment to abolish or limit this right is remotely likely.
It sometimes seems that the critics are behaving according to the romantic illusion that if they can just abolish ECT, mental illness will disappear with it.
The Chinese could abolish capital controls and let the renminbi's exchange rate float.

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