Definition of Abolish

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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. Related Definitions: Abolish, An, Annul, As, Away, Destroy, Do, End, Folly, Make, Of, Or, Out, Physical, Put, Said, Slavery, To, Void, Wholly, Wipe, With

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

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke

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

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells

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

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Angela Davis

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Mikhail Bakunin

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

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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