repeal
verb (used with object)
to revoke or withdraw formally or officially.
repeals
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present tense formof repeal (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In agreeing to hear the pair of cases, the justices did not disturb the lower court rulings that blocked the repeals for now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
Last week, the government introduced a new law that repeals and rebrands the scheme.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
A major wave of repeals took place in 1985, when Minnesota, South Carolina, and Texas eliminated their blue laws.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 20, 2025
This year’s bill repeals what’s left of it.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
She repeals but a single law, repeals it by the action of a sovereign convention, leaves her constitution, her laws, her political and social polity untouched.
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston
