abrogate
verb (used with object)
to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal.
had abrogated
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past perfectof abrogate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It said Francis had abrogated all past subsidies and that Vatican-own apartments should be rented out to senior officials at the same rates that apply to renters with no connection to the Vatican.
From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2023
Back then, political leaders in London, Paris, and Berlin had abrogated control of basic policy to warrior chieftains.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2018
By 1958, Sarit had abrogated the constitution, halted elections and imposed even stricter limitations on free speech.
From Time ● Oct. 13, 2016
Iran earlier had abrogated a treaty granting equal navigational rights to the crucial Shatt al-Arab, a confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates that leads to the gulf.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the War of 1812 ended, Great Britain set up the preposterous claim that the war had abrogated all treaties, and that with the treaty of 1783 our rights in the fisheries were gone.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
