abolish
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Related Words
Abolish, eradicate, stamp out mean to do away completely with something. To abolish is to cause to cease, often by a summary order: to abolish a requirement. Stamp out implies forcibly making an end to something considered undesirable or harmful: to stamp out the opium traffic. Eradicate (literally, to tear out by the roots ), a formal word, suggests extirpation, leaving no vestige or trace: to eradicate all use of child labor.
Other Word Forms
- abolishable adjective
- abolisher noun
- abolishment noun
- unabolishable adjective
- unabolished adjective
- well-abolished adjective
Etymology
Origin of abolish
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English, from Middle French aboliss-, long stem of abolir, from Latin abolēre “to destroy, efface”
Example Sentences
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The network of 15 councils in Essex will be abolished and replaced with five local authorities, the government has announced.
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The current 15 authorities and two levels of local government are due to be abolished and replaced with between three and five all-purpose unitary councils.
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While the manifesto links this to the abolishing of local connection rules, the city council said this was due to changes in the way asylum applications were processed by the Home Office.
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Reform said the party was conducting an audit of quangos to decide which ones should be abolished, returned to central government or retained in their current form.
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They bounced back from the 17th-century revolution, when the Lords was abolished by a law that declared it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
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