abolish
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French abolir, from Latin abolere, from ab + olere (“‘to grow’”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /əˈbɒlɪʃ/
- ə-bŏl'ĭsh, /@"bQlIS/
- ə'bolish
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[edit] Verb
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to abolish (third-person singular simple present abolishes, present participle abolishing, simple past and past participle abolished)
- To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; to end a law, system, custom or institution
- Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
- (archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
- And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. - Edmund Spenser
- His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. - Alfred Tennyson
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to do away with
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to destroy
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