abolish
IPA: ʌbˈɑɫɪʃ
verb
- To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
- (archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
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Examples of "abolish" in Sentences
- Serfdom was abolished.
- They abolished the servitude.
- The law abolished the commands.
- The audience abolished the project.
- The government abolished the trade.
- The government abolished the quotas.
- The Coalition is to Abolish the Fur Trade.
- The UN abolished the practice of colonialism.
- In 1197, they abolished the servitude of the glebe.
- The Concurrent List in the Constitution will be abolished.
- Will McConnell do, as Howard Gleckman suggested he must, in order to balance the budget by 2020, "abolish" the entirety of government.
- And here, perhaps, we may be pardoned for the digression necessary to show the exact definition of the terms abolish, abolition and abolitionist.
- I also don't think they will actually abolish is simply because men would have to be paying child support for kids they wouldn't want to have, so I am pretty sure men would not go for it.
- The mischief done by privateering, which the great Powers of Europe have agreed to abolish, is as nothing compared with the wholesale suffering which the blockade now being enforced by the
- Unfortunately, the values and ideals were also created by those badly behaved Europeans in conditions that the European Union is now desperate to abolish, that is small and medium-sized, competing political entities.
- Vouchers, charter schools, mayoral control, the power to "abolish" individual teaching positions and chancellor-controlled teacher evaluations - all of these have been part of the school landscape in Washington for years.