Abolish: v.tr. (word coming from the Latin abolere, from alere “to make grow”).
The verb “to abolish” has several meanings:
Nullify, delete (annihilate, destroy, remove):
1. To suppress (a text having prescriptive force, a custom) by voluntary or involuntary, sudden or gradual action.
To abolish a law (repeal), a custom, a rule (cancel, reverse, invalidate).
Abolish a penalty.
Quote from the French novelist and journalist Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1...
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