To completely do away with (something) The first country to abolish and punish slavery for indigenous people was. How to use abolish in a sentence.
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To end an activity or custom officially
Abolish, eradicate, stamp out mean to do away completely with something
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
If someone in authority abolishes a system or practice, they formally put an end to it 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
