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a·bol·ish    Audio Help   [uh-bol-ish] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object)
to do away with; put an end to; annul; make void: to abolish slavery.
[Origin: 1425–75; late ME < MF aboliss-, long s. of abolir < L abolére to destroy, efface, put an end to; change of conjugation perh. by assoc. with L abolitiō abolition]

—Related forms
a·bol·ish·a·ble, adjective
a·bol·ish·er, noun
a·bol·ish·ment, noun

—Synonyms suppress, nullify, cancel; annihilate, obliterate, extinguish; exterminate, extirpate, eliminate. Abolish, eradicate, stamp out mean to do away completely with something. To abolish is to cause to cease, often by a summary order: to abolish a requirement. Stamp out implies forcibly making an end to something considered undesirable or harmful: to stamp out the opium traffic. Eradicate (literally, to tear out by the roots), a formal word, suggests extirpation, leaving no vestige or trace: to eradicate all use of child labor.
—Antonyms establish.
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Thesaurus Entries
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry:  abolish
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To put an end to, especially formally and with authority.
Synonyms:  abrogate, annihilate, annul, cancel, invalidate, negate, nullify, set aside, vitiate, void
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry:  annihilate
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To destroy all traces of.
Synonyms:  blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root, rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.


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