repeal
Americanverb (used with object)
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to revoke or withdraw formally or officially.
to repeal a grant.
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to revoke or annul (a law, tax, duty, etc.) by express legislative enactment; abrogate.
- Synonyms:
- invalidate , rescind , abolish , nullify
noun
verb
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to annul or rescind officially (something previously ordered); revoke
these laws were repealed
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obsolete to call back (a person) from exile
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- nonrepealable adjective
- repealability noun
- repealable adjective
- repealableness noun
- repealer noun
- unrepealability noun
- unrepealable adjective
- unrepealed adjective
Etymology
Origin of repeal
1275–1325; Middle English repelen < Anglo-French repeler, equivalent to re- re- + ( a ) peler to appeal
Example Sentences
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The government has addressed the issue, with the Ministry of Justice announcing plans to repeal the assumption in October.
From BBC
“I think the American palate for years leaned toward sweet… all the way back to Prohibition and its repeal,” he says.
From Salon
In October, the first full month after the repeal of the federal tax credit, EVs accounted for just 5.2% of new vehicle retail sales in the U.S., according to consumer insights company J.D.
From Los Angeles Times
But Ukrainians protested until the government repealed the law and restored the anticorruption bodies’ independence.
Big swaths of the Enforcement Acts were either modified or repealed over the years, and the federal government didn’t do much more about elections until the Civil Rights Movement, Keyssar said.
From Salon
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