authorize
verb (used with object)
to give authority or official power to; empower.
deauthorize
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a word derived from
authorize.
Example Sentences
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In the Bowers case, some of the Pittsburgh synagogue’s members have asked Garland to deauthorize the death penalty, and Bowers’s defense attorneys have said he would accept a plea agreement for a life prison sentence.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2023
Mazer said he asked the Justice Department to deauthorize the capital case against Skates in 2021 and sent a supplemental request in early 2022.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2023
