abolish
Wipe out completely
Abolish means to formally put an end to a system, practice, or institution, typically one that has been in place for a long time.
It carries a sense of official or permanent elimination rather than gradual decline.
The word most commonly appears in discussions of ending slavery, laws, or governmental bodies: The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Unlike cancel or eliminate, abolish implies deliberate action to dismantle something established.
Annul a statute
- revokeOfficially cancel authorization
- rescindFormally cancel or withdraw
- annulDeclare legally void
- invalidateMake null or void
nullify · void · abrogate · overturn · quash · vacate · cancel · countermand
Destroy completely, utterly
- eliminateRemove completely
- endFinal portion or cessation
- terminateBring to an end
- extinguishEnd combustion forcibly
destroy · dismantle · remove · erase · obliterate · exterminate · wipe-out · phase-out
Ownership of people
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- liberationRelease from constraint
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- enfranchisementGranting citizenship rights
equality · suffrage · bondage · servitude · Lincoln · emancipator · unshackling · apartheid
repeal
Annul a statute
invalidate · nullify · void · abrogate · overturn · quash · vacate · cancel · countermand · set-aside
eradicate
Destroy completely, utterly
extinguish · destroy · dismantle · remove · erase · obliterate · exterminate · wipe-out · phase-out · discontinue
slavery
Ownership of people
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- liberationRelease from constraint
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
enfranchisement · equality · suffrage · bondage · servitude · Lincoln · emancipator · unshackling · apartheid · segregation
ban
Official restriction on something
criminalize · proscribe · interdict · suppress · veto · taboo · moratorium · embargo · sanction · restriction
change
To make different
- overhaulComplete systematic repair
- restructureRearrange fundamental organization
- transformChange completely in form
modernize · update · amend · revise · replace · progress · advance · movement · campaign · activist
- cancelcancel, annul, nullify, invalidate, revoke
- Destroydestroy, annihilate, obliterate, demolish, devastate
- removalremove, elimination, delete, erasing, erase
- Prologpredicate, clause, unification, query, fact
- reversalsreverse, undo, revert, overturn, flip
- demolitiondemolish, raze, bulldoze, controlled demolition, wreck
- abolition of slaveryEnding legalized human ownership
- abolitionist movementCampaign to end slavery
- abolition movementCampaign to end slavery
- slavery abolitionOutlawing ownership of people
- death penalty abolitionEliminating government-authorized killing
- abolitionist societiesOrganizations opposing human enslavement
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