[ UK /ɐbˈɒlɪʃ/ ]
[ US /əˈbɑɫɪʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. do away with
    Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia
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How To Use abolish In A Sentence

  • But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
  • Many teachers wish to abolish the cane.
  • The monopoly in politics, or bossism, may possibly be abolished by direct legislation or by proportional representation.
  • The job of ministers is to abolish and remove these obstacles to good teaching. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
  • Were Medicare abolished, the nonpoor would finance health care in their old age by buying health insurance when they were young. Becker and Posner vs. Medicare, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • We will abolish tax relief for private health insurance, whilst protecting the rights of existing policy-holders.
  • Irgm1 accumulated around the latex beads phagosomes (seen as refringent spheres) while the loss of the nucleotide-binding site completely abolished the phagosomal accumulation. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • We meet the commixture of materials and things in our excavation whose object is, among other things, to reorder, to abolish the disorder of collapse and dilapidation, to find significance and signification in the apparent chaos.
  • This system of dyarchy was abolished by the Government of India Act, which gave the provincial assemblies full responsibility for government.
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