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ABOLISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Do away with

Example:

Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia

Synonyms:

abolish; get rid of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abolish"):

cashier (discard or do away with)

abrogate (revoke formally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

establish (set up or found)

Derivation:

abolishable (capable of being abolished)

abolishment; abolition (the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery))

Credits

 Context examples: 

The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health, as well as brevity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This alteration abolishes the enzymatic activity of the cytochrome P450 2D6*19 protein.

(CYP2D6*19 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This alteration abolishes the enzymatic activity of the cytochrome P450 2D6*15 protein.

(CYP2D6*15 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This alteration in protein sequence abolishes the enzymatic activity of the cytochrome P450 2C19*5 protein.

(CYP2C19*5 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This alteration in protein sequence abolishes the enzymatic activity of the cytochrome P450 2C19*3 protein.

(CYP2C19*3 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Certain allelic variants of the CHEK2 gene that encode protein products with reduced or abolished activity are associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome 2.

(CHEK2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Four new fish species were discovered in the National Copper Reserve and Associates (RENCA), abolished by a presidential decree.

(Report unveils 381 new plant and animal species in Amazon, Agência Brasil)

This alteration in protein sequence abolishes the enzymatic activity of the cytochrome P450 2C19*6 protein.

(CYP2C19*6 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This alteration in protein sequence abolishes the enzymatic activity of the cytochrome P450 2D6*12 protein.

(CYP2D6*12 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This alteration abolishes the enzymatic activity of the cytochrome P450 2D6*11 protein.

(CYP2D6*11 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)