To completely do away with (something) How to use abolish in a sentence. To end an activity or custom officially To abolish is to cause to cease, often by a summary order Stamp out implies forcibly making an end to something considered undesirable or harmful To stamp out the opium traffic.
Definition of abolish verb from the oxford advanced learner's dictionary Abolish something to officially end a law, a system or an institution This tax should be abolished She campaigned to abolish the death penalty altogether They called on the government to abolish tuition fees entirely. To do away with (a law, custom, condition, etc.) completely
The following year parliament voted to abolish the death penalty for murder [verb noun] the whole system should be abolished. Repeal, cancel, overturn, avoid, abrogate, nullify, annul, vacate Enact, establish, legislate, found, institute, lay down, legitimate, validate To officially end something, especially a law or system Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world
It gained momentum in the western world in the late 18th and 19th centuries [1] the first country to fully outlaw slavery was france in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies The first country to abolish and punish slavery for indigenous people was.
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