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 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
Last week, with similar discretion, Richard Nixon signed the repealer, and the resolution receded into history.
From Time Magazine Archive
One gentleman, though not a repealer, has begged us not to declare ourselves decidedly adverse to repeal till we have studied the petitions which are coming in from Ireland.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
