Abolish
verb
To officially end or stop something, especially a law, rule or system.
The goal of the protest was to abolish the unfair tax.
Often appears as...
- abolish slavery
- abolish a law
verb
To officially end or stop something, especially a law, rule or system.
The goal of the protest was to abolish the unfair tax.
Often appears as...
- abolish slavery
- abolish a law
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Serious Change
Used when discussing significant changes, often social or political.
Many activists are fighting to abolish child labor.
Pro Tip 2/3Official Action
Implies a formal decision by an authoritative body, like a government.
The parliament voted to abolish the outdated regulations.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreversible
Once something is abolished, it's meant not to return or be reinstated.
After the law was abolished, the practices it allowed were no longer legal.
Pro Tip 1/3Serious Change
Used when discussing significant changes, often social or political.
Many activists are fighting to abolish child labor.
Pro Tip 2/3Official Action
Implies a formal decision by an authoritative body, like a government.
The parliament voted to abolish the outdated regulations.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreversible
Once something is abolished, it's meant not to return or be reinstated.
After the law was abolished, the practices it allowed were no longer legal.
Pro Tip 1/3Serious Change
Used when discussing significant changes, often social or political.
Many activists are fighting to abolish child labor.
Pro Tip 2/3Official Action
Implies a formal decision by an authoritative body, like a government.
The parliament voted to abolish the outdated regulations.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreversible
Once something is abolished, it's meant not to return or be reinstated.
After the law was abolished, the practices it allowed were no longer legal.
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Nationalism vs....
there is still room in the world for patriotism, there is still room in the world for having special loyalties and obligations towards your own people, towards your own country. I don't think anybody is really thinking of abolishing that. But in order to confront climate change,
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
of the things the people are talking about what's going to happen on the state and local level the other the last thing I'll say about this is that reform tends to have this kind of backsliding cycle and so when people say that they want to completely abolish police
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What few people know...
These initiatives cut civilian unemployment in half. And they did so alongside labor acts that abolished child labor, granted unions the right to collective bargaining, and set the first national minimum wage. Benefits were also created to help those unable to work.
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What adults can learn...
examples age has absolutely nothing to do with it the traits the word childish addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking
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How did Hitler rise to...
to grant him emergency powers. Within a matter of months, freedom of the press was abolished, other parties were disbanded, and anti-Jewish laws were passed. Many of Hitler's early radical supporters were arrested and executed, along with potential rivals,
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Should “blackness”...
argued has been absolutely a moral choice so I got another question for you this one's a little more serious though if you could choose to abolish white power and white privilege and white supremacy would you do it
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The power of introverts...
So that's the world we're living in today. That's our cultural inheritance. Now none of this is to say that social skills are unimportant, and I'm also not calling for the abolishing of teamwork at all.
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Jimmy Carter: Why I...
to send a person to be executed. Nebraska this week just passed a law abolishing the death penalty, because it costs so much. So the resort to violence and abuse of poor people and helpless people
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What adults can learn...
that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word, when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.
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The beauty of human skin...
that I once felt becomes love. The last country -- the last country in the world who abolished slavery
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Nationalism vs....
there is still room in the world for patriotism, there is still room in the world for having special loyalties and obligations towards your own people, towards your own country. I don't think anybody is really thinking of abolishing that. But in order to confront climate change,
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
of the things the people are talking about what's going to happen on the state and local level the other the last thing I'll say about this is that reform tends to have this kind of backsliding cycle and so when people say that they want to completely abolish police
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What few people know...
These initiatives cut civilian unemployment in half. And they did so alongside labor acts that abolished child labor, granted unions the right to collective bargaining, and set the first national minimum wage. Benefits were also created to help those unable to work.
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What adults can learn...
examples age has absolutely nothing to do with it the traits the word childish addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking
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How did Hitler rise to...
to grant him emergency powers. Within a matter of months, freedom of the press was abolished, other parties were disbanded, and anti-Jewish laws were passed. Many of Hitler's early radical supporters were arrested and executed, along with potential rivals,
Video examples
Should “blackness”...
argued has been absolutely a moral choice so I got another question for you this one's a little more serious though if you could choose to abolish white power and white privilege and white supremacy would you do it
Video examples
The power of introverts...
So that's the world we're living in today. That's our cultural inheritance. Now none of this is to say that social skills are unimportant, and I'm also not calling for the abolishing of teamwork at all.
Video examples
Jimmy Carter: Why I...
to send a person to be executed. Nebraska this week just passed a law abolishing the death penalty, because it costs so much. So the resort to violence and abuse of poor people and helpless people
Video examples
What adults can learn...
that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word, when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.
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The beauty of human skin...
that I once felt becomes love. The last country -- the last country in the world who abolished slavery
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Clergyman
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.
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Susan Cain
American Writer
I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.
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Ha-Joon Chang
South Korean Economist
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
British Writer
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
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Maria Weston Chapman
American Activist
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
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Aristophanes
Greek Poet
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Elinor Glyn
English Author
All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
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Sharice Davids
American Politician
Let me clear, I do not support abolishing ICE.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Clergyman
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.
Quote examples
Susan Cain
American Writer
I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.
Quote examples
Billy Graham
American Clergyman
The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.
Quote examples
Ha-Joon Chang
South Korean Economist
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
British Writer
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
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Maria Weston Chapman
American Activist
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
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Aristophanes
Greek Poet
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Elinor Glyn
English Author
All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
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Sharice Davids
American Politician
Let me clear, I do not support abolishing ICE.
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