Abolish
[ə'bɒlɪʃ] or [ə'bɑlɪʃ]
Definition
(verb.) do away with; 'Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia'.
Editor: Sonya--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.
(v. t.) To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.
Typist: Virginia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Abrogate, annul, disannul, repeal, rescind, revoke, cancel, nullify, quash, vacate, invalidate, set aside, make void.[2]. Destroy, overthrow, subvert, obliterate, extirpate, eradicate, annihilate, extinguish, suppress, DISESTABLISH, do away, put an end to.
Typed by Justine
Definition
v.t. to put an end to: to annul.—adj. Abol′ishable capable of being abolished.—ns. Abol′ishment (rare); Aboli′tion the act of abolishing; Aboli′tionism advocacy of abolitionist principles; Aboli′tionist one who seeks to abolish anything esp. slavery.
Editor: Rebekah
Examples
- No class will abolish itself, materially alter its way of living, or drastically reconstruct itself, albeit no class is indisposed to co-operate in the unlimited socialization of any other class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He believed that Free Trade would tend to abolish many of the difficulties that divided nations, and he wrote a paper on that subject, addressed to the French Directory. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The first impulse is to abolish all lobster palaces, melodramas, yellow newspapers, and sentimentally erotic novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Communism is the proposal to abolish property altogether, or, in other words, to hold all things in common. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If you don't, then confess that you will not abolish prostitution, and turn your compassion to softening its effects. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What he wants to abolish is the repressive, not the productive state. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Why not abolish all the devil's works? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But his own desires are not abolished. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The constitution which this act established, was allowed to subsist for about two-and-twenty years, but was abolished by the 10th of queen Anne, ch. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Divorce was made as easy as marriage; the distinction of legitimate and illegitimate children was abolished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It hushed the eloquent, struck down the powerful, abolished the beautiful and good. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But they are not abolished; they are not suspended; they are not suppressed--save with reference to the task in question. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Those presents, it seems to have been supposed, could more easily be abolished altogether, than effectually regulated and ascertained. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Soon after the Revolution, therefore, it was abolished as a badge of slavery. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Early in the session of the Congress which met in December, 1839, a bill was discussed abolishing the Military Academy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For those earnest men and women in Chicago did not set out to find a way of abolishing prostitution; they set out to find a way that would conform to four idols they worshiped. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The illuminated village had seized hold of the tocsin, and, abolishing the lawful ringer, rang for joy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- To subjugate devastating disease is no longer a dream; the hope of abolishing poverty is not utopian. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He thinks, like Plato, that if he abolishes private feelings and interests, a great public feeling will take their place. Plato. The Republic.
Typist: Waldo