Abolish

Definition: Abolish

Abolish

Verb

1. Do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia".

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Date "abolish" was first used: 1459. (references)

Note: Abolish \A*bol"ish\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Abolished; present participle verb or noun Abolishing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Abolish

Abrogation

Verb: abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy; abolish; revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize; overrule, override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void; disestablish, disendow; deconsecrate.

Crosswords: Abolish

Abe Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, right? (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller)

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Books

• 10 Reasons to Abolish the Imf & World Bank (Open Media Pamphlet Series) (reference)

• Abolish Anxiety: Discover Inner Peace in a Stressed-Out World (reference)

• Disarmament and Nuclear Tests, 1960-63: The Search for a Way to Abolish War, End the Costly Burden of Armament and Prevent the Horrors of Radioactive (reference)

• Know Bull: How to Recognize and Abolish the Bs That Surrounds You (reference)

• Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the Fcc and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Abolish Bad Architecture [IMPORT] (reference)

• Hordes To Abolish The Divine (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom: for in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom. (Second Treatise of Government)

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. (reference)

The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality. (reference)

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. (reference)

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Health

New approaches to this problem, still in an experimental stage, are treatment of platelet concentrates with ultraviolet light to abolish the immunogenicity of contaminating leukocytes and the transfusion of soluble, class I HLA antigens to induce active tolerance. (references)

Business

A law to abolish this status, in German called "Scheinselbstaendigkeit," has ended this situation. (references)

Civil Liberties

Greece

Minority religious groups have requested that the Government abolish laws that regulate house of prayer permits. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

In June 2000, the federal government pledged to abolish the crisis tax within two years. (references)

El Salvador

Early in their history, they became one of the few Mesoamerican Indian groups to abolish human sacrifice. (references)

Human Rights

Libya

The "Green Book" of 1988 states that "the goal of the Libyan society is to abolish capital punishment;" however, the Government has not acted to abolish the death penalty, and its scope has increased. (references)

Fiji

The takeover of Parliament in May 2000 and subsequent events, including the putative abrogation of the Constitution and effort to abolish the Supreme Court, placed the status of the judiciary in question. (references)

Political Economy

Costa Rica

The Political Constitution, enacted in November 1949, enshrined the government's decision in December 1948 to abolish the country's military forces. (references)

Political Rights

Congo

The delegates urged the Government to release political prisoners, open the political process, abolish the CPP's, and free jailed journalists. (references)

Hong Kong

An October 1999 motion in the Legislative Council calling for a referendum on the Government's proposal to abolish the Urban and Regional Councils, Hong Kong's mid-tier local government organs known collectively as the Municipal Councils, was defeated. (references)

Pakistan

The Musharraf Government had abandoned a plan to abolish the separate electorate system due to pressure by some Muslim political groups, but during the year prepared electoral reforms that included the elimination of the separate electorates system for religious minorities. (references)

Trade

Russia

There are further plans to reduce the surrender requirement to 25 percent in 2003, and abolish it completely in 2004. (references)

Taiwan

Taiwan has agreed to abolish its government alcohol monopoly and provide a more equitable system of taxation on these products upon accession to the WTO. (references)

Yemen

In 1995 the government renounced the secondary and tertiary aspects of the Arab League boycott of Israel, but the primary aspect will remain in force until there is an Arab League consensus to abolish it. (references)

Worker Rights

Syria

The Committee of Experts of the International Labor Organization (ILO) has long noted the Government's refusal to abolish the Minister's power over collective contracts. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "abolish": abolish slavery. Additional references.

Afrikaan

kanselleer (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Albanian

abrogoj (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), shfuqizoj (abrogate, invalidate, negate, negative, nullify, repeal, rescind), heq (abate, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ألغى بطل, ‏ألغى (abort, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, deactivate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, lift, negate, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, scratch, scrub, set aside, spike, stop, undo, vacate), ‏أبطل (abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отменявам (cancel), закривам (adjourn, cap, case, close down, cover, hide, intercept, liquidate, obscure, obstruct, shield, shroud, shut down, shut out). (various references)

Chinese 

废除 (Abolished, Abolishing, Abolishment, Abrogative, Depose, Deposed, Deposing, Extinguishment, Quash, Quashed, Quashing), 廢除 (abrogate, repeal), 廢 (crippled). (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), odvolat (abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw). (various references)

Danish

afskaffe (abrogate, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), aflyse (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), sende afbud (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, countermand, remit). (various references)

Dutch

afschaffen (abrogate, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Esperanto

abolicii (abrogate), aboli (abrogate), nuligi (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Faeroese

taka aftur (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, draw back, remit, withdraw), gera til einkis (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Farsi 

منسوخ کردن (Abrogate), ازمیان بردن (Abrogate, Shunt, Wipe), برانداختن (Exterminate, Overthrow, Overturn, Subvert). (various references)

Finnish

poistaa käytännöstä, poistaa (deduct, delete, demount, do away with, eliminate, exclude, purge, remove, strike out, take out, to excavate, to remove a volume from a tape unit or a direct-access device, weeding, withdraw, write off), lakkauttaa (discontinue, stop, suppress, suspend, withdraw). (various references)

French

abolir (abrogate), supprimer (abjure, abrogate), annuler (abjure, abrogate). (various references)

Frisian

annulearje (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), skrasse (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), ôfskaffe (abrogate, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), ôfsizze (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, countermand, remit). (various references)

German

abschaffen (disestablish, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove, suppress, to abolish, to suppress). (various references)

Greek 

καταργώ (abrogate, annul, do away with, negate, nullify, quash, repeal, rescind). (various references)

Hawaiian

abrogoj (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Hebrew 

לבטל (annul, cancel, invalidate, nullify, revoke, set aside, suspend, undo). (various references)

Hungarian

megszüntet (abrogate, cease, discontinue, do away with, extinguish, leave off, stop, terminate, to abolish, to cease, to do away with, to end, to extinguish, to lift, to make good, to put down, to terminate), megsemmisít (abjure, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, cancel, efface, elide, nullify, remit, repeal, to annihilate, to annul, to cancel, to destroy, to disfigure, to eliminate, to eradicate, to exterminate, to give sy a trouncing, to nullify, to overwhelm, to put down, to put to rout, to repeal, to reverse, to rout, to set aside, to smite hip and thigh), eltöröl (cancel, do away, obliterate, to abolish, to annul, to extinguish, to obliterate, to put down, to repeal, to rescind, to revoke, wipe out). (various references)

Icelandic

afnema (abrogate), ógilda (abrogate). (various references)

Indonesian

meniadakan (counteract, eliminate, negate, nullify), mengakhiri (assuage, conclude, end, terminate). (various references)

Italian

abolire (abrogate, do away with, lift, put down), annullare (abate, abjure, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, counter, countermand, delete, dissolve, nullify, override, overrule, quash, remit, rescind, scrub, set aside, tear up, to abrogate), abrogare (abrogate, cancel, repeal, rescind, revoke, to abrogate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"� � (break down, defeat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

� は (break down, defeat). (various references)

Malay

menghapuskan (abrogate), membatalkan (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), hapuskan (abrogate), batalkan (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Manx

astyrt (abolition, dig out, eradicate, eradication), astyral (dig out, eradicate). (various references)

Norwegian

avskaffe. (various references)

Papiamen

anulá (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit), abolí (abrogate), kanselá (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, remit). (various references)

Pig Latin

abolishay.(various references)

Portuguese

abolir (aboil, abrogate, annul, do away, exterminate, nullity, rescind, rid, stop, wipe out), revogar (abjure, abrogate, annul, avoid, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, deprive, determine, disaffirm, discharge from, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke), anular (abjure, abrogate, annul, annular, cancel, countermand, cross out, defeat, delete, disaffirm, disannul, dissolve, irritate, negate, neutron, nullify, off, overrule, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, ring finger, ringed, rip up, set aside, strike out). (various references)

Romanian

desfiinţa (abrogate, annul, destroy, disband, disestablish, dissolve, level away, liquidate, neutralize, repeal, suppress, undo, uproot), anula (abate, abjure, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, discharge, dissolve, negate, negative, nullify, overrule, quash, recall, remit, render null, repeal, rescind, reverse, undo, vacate, vitiate), abroga (abate, abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, nullify, remit, repeal, rescind, revoke), aboli (abrogate, disestablish, level away). (various references)

Russian 

упразднять (annihilate), отменять (abrogate, annul, back out, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, disestablish, override, overrule, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, revoked, revoking, undid, undone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

abolirati, ukinuti (abrogate, call off, cancel, discontinue, nullify, quash, rescind, reverse, revoke, set aside, undo), staviti van snage, poništiti (annul, cancel, countermand, defeat, foreclose, invalidate, nullify, quash, repeal, unmake, void). (various references)

Spanish

abolir (abate, aboil, abrogate, annul, cancel, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), abrogar (abrogate, disestablish, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove, repeal, to abrogate), contramandar (abjure, abrogate, annul, cancel, countermand, remit), anular (abjure, abrogate, annul, annular, annulus, avoid, cancel, countermand, defeat, destroy, discontinue, invalidate, negate, negative, nullify, override, overrule, overturn, quash, remit, repudiate, rescind, revoke, ring finger, scrub, set aside, to abrogate, to override, undo, void, write off). (various references)

Swedish

upphäva (abate, annul, cancel, declare invalid, defeat, invalidate, lever, lift, neutralize, override, overrule, raise, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, undo, withdraw), avskaffa (abrogate, annul, do away with, lift, repeal). (various references)

Turkish

feshetmek (abjure, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, countermand, dissolve, do away with, outlaw, quash, remit, rescind, set aside, vacate, wash out). (various references)

Turkmen 

synmak, syndyrmak (annul, destroy), яatyrmak, goяbolsun etmek (repeal). (various references)

Ukranian 

усувати (brush aside, castigate, depose, dethrone, displace, eliminate, obviate, preclude, put away, smooth, smooth away, take off, vanish), скасовувати (abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, disaffirm, disestablish, negative, nullify, repeal, rescind, withdraw), відміняти (abate, abrogate, avoid, bar, defeat, negative, nullify, rescind, revoke, vacate), знищувати (annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither). (various references)

Welsh

dileu (abrogate, annul, blot out, delete), diddymu (abrogate, annihilate, annul). (various references)

abdicamus, aboleo, abolere, abolescere, degluttiamus, degluttiat, degluttiret, degluttissent, degluttivit, dele, deleam, deleamus, deleant, deleantur, deleas, deleat, deleatur, delebimus, delebis, delebit, delebitque, delebitur, delebo, delebor, delebunt, delebuntur, delendam, delendi, delendos, delens, deleo, delere, delerem, delerent, deleret, deleri, deleta, deletae, deleti, deletis, deleverit, deleverunt, delevi, delevimus, delevit, delevitque, demoliar, demolient, demolientes, demolientur, demolierunt, demolietur, demolire, demolirer, demolita, demoliti, demolitum, demolitur, demolitus, demoliuntur. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "abolish": abolishable, abolished, abolisher, abolishers, abolishes, abolishing, abolishment, abolishments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Abolish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abileah, abilis, abolich, abolies, abolism, Bolshi, obelish, Sablich, unboyish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aboil, bails, basil, blahs, boils, bolas, hails, halos, obias, ohias, sahib, shoal.

-3 letters: abos, ails, albs, also, bail, bals, bash, bias, bios, blah, boas, boil, bola, bosh, hail, halo, hila, hobs, hols, isba, labs, lash, libs, lobs, obia, obis, ohia, oils, sail, sial, silo, slab, slob, soil, sola, soli.

-4 letters: abo, abs, ail, ais, alb, als, ash, bah, bal, bas, bio, bis, boa, bos, hao, has, his, hob, lab, las, lib, lis, lob, obi, ohs, oil, sab, sal, sha, sib, sob, sol.

-5 letters: ab, ah, ai, al, as, ba, bi, bo, ha, hi, ho, is, la, li, lo, oh, os, sh, si, so.

+1 letter: basophil, hobnails.

+2 letters: abolished, abolisher, abolishes, basophile, basophils, biathlons, shambolic.

+3 letters: abolishers, abolishing, amphiboles, basophiles, basophilia, basophilic, batholiths, charbroils, hospitable, hospitably, kohlrabies.

+4 letters: abolishable, abolishment, amphibolies, baldachinos, basophilias, biophysical, buffalofish, fashionable, fashionably, holoblastic.

+5 letters: abolishments, ailurophobes, amphibiously, amphibolites, bibliothecas, biochemicals, charbroilers, dishonorable, dishonorably, fashionables, haptoglobins, inhospitable, inhospitably.

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