abolish
[əˈbɑːlɪʃ]
Definition:
1. To officially end a law, a system or an institution.
2. Do away with.
Use 'abolish' in a sentence:
- 1. The card and a handshake typify trust and abolish views that the bank was out to seize money.
- 2. If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it.
- 3. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
- 4. They promised to abolish forced labour.
- 5. Changing the system will not abolish bubbles.
- 6. The end of law is not abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
- 7. It would be easy to return to gold and to abolish the Federal Reserve, and to do so at one stroke. All we need is the will.
- 8. They proposed a referendum on abolishing the monarchy, and setting up a republic.
- 9. We in the Liberal Democrats say council tax is fundamentally unfair and should be abolished.
- 10. This law is not work, we should abolish it.
- 11. He wants to abolish the armed forces and spend their budget on improving state schools.
- 12. Do abolish this kind of bad custom.
- 13. This president abolished slavery in America.