abolish
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English abolisshen, from Middle French abolir (“to abolish”), from Latin abolēre (“destroy, cause to die out”), present active infinitive of aboleō (“destroy, abolish”), abolesco (“to wither, to decay”),[1] from ab (“from, away from”) + oleō (“to grow”).[2]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) enPR: ə-bŏl'ĭsh IPA: /əˈbɒlɪʃ/, X-SAMPA: /@"bQlIS/
- (US) IPA: /əˈbɑl.ɪʃ/, /əˈbɑl.əʃ/
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Verb [edit]
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. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.][3]
- Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
- 2002: William Schabas. The abolition of the death penalty in international law. Cambridge University Press.
- In 1846, Michigan became the first jurisdiction to abolish capital punishment permanently.
- (archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.][3]
- And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. - Edmund Spenser
- His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. - Alfred Tennyson
Synonyms [edit]
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Translations [edit]
to do away with
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to destroy
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References [edit]
- ^ 1984 [1975], Urdang, Laurence editor, The Random House College Dictionary, New York, NY: Random House, Inc., ISBN 0-394-43600-8, page 4:
- ^ 1976 [1909], Gove, Philip Babcock editor, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., ISBN 0-87779-101-5, page 4:
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 6:
