repeal
verb (used with object)
to revoke or withdraw formally or officially.
repealer
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a word derived from
repeal.
Example Sentences
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Clara Kumagi, a keen repealer, has taken time off work in Tokyo to travel back thousands of miles to cast her vote.
From BBC ● May 23, 2018
The House Judiciary Committee recommended further studying the possibility of creating the joint committee of the repealer.
From US News ● Feb. 3, 2015
The Labor and Public Welfare Committee had been holding day & night sessions to speed the repealer bill, finally had to extend public hearings for two more weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement act.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fletcher was accordingly as great a repealer as Daniel O'Connell in after times.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
