Synonyms for abolish
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Verb
1. Repeal — to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice
repeal, abrogate, nullify, annul, eliminate, revoke, eradicate, invalidate, cancel, destroy, rescind, suppress, obliterate, extirpate, annihilate, do away with informal, exterminate, quash, expunge, extinguish, dissolve, reverse
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Definitions
- v. 1
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
Related words
- Word family
- abolishment
Forms
- Past participle
- abolished
e.g. abolished → repealed, abrogated, nullified, annulled…
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Abolish, to do away with, bring absolutely to an end, especially as something hostile, hindering, or harmful, was formerly used of persons and material objects, a usage now obsolete except in poetry or highly figurative speech.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- repeal The Republicans want to repeal Obamacare.
- nullify This contract will nullify all preceding contracts.
- abrogate Did the ruling abrogate your right to seek compensation?
By length
- 5 letters
- quash1, annul2
- 6 letters
- cancel2, repeal2, revoke2
- 7 letters
- destroy2, reverse2, nullify3, rescind2, expunge2
- 8 letters
- suppress2, dissolve2, abrogate3
- 9 letters
- eliminate4, eradicate4, extirpate3
- 10 letters
- invalidate4, extinguish3, annihilate4, obliterate4
- 11 letters
- exterminate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (annul2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- abolir
- Italiano
- abolire
- Español
- abolir
- Deutsch
- abschaffen
- Català
- abolir