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Definition of Abolish
Abolish

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.

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Abolish Quotations

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.
John F. Kennedy

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
Ron White

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Thomas Paine

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
Anatole France

Abolish Translations

abolish in Afrikaans is kanselleer
abolish in Dutch is afschaffen
abolish in French is abolissent, abolir, abolissons, abolissez, annuler
abolish in German is abbauen, abschaffen, abschaffen
abolish in Italian is annullare, abolire
abolish in Latin is aboleo
abolish in Norwegian is avskaffe
abolish in Spanish is abrogar, abolir


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