to abrogate
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8.8
- verb
- /ˈæb.rə.ɡeɪt/
- Formal
:
abrogar
- The government decided to abrogate the outdated law to reflect modern values.
- abrogate the treaty
- abrogate that law
- abrogated the agreement
The suffering occurs because this other law is not completely abrogated or nullified.
- The suffering occurs because this other law is not completely abrogated or nullified.
- Says the opposite, the later verse abrogates the earlier verse, it nullifies it.
- I've never witnessed a generation that was so anxious to sort of just abrogate the whole thing.
Examples
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If these institutions abrogate their duty to teach truth-telling, our social order is doomed.
Academic text (2004) -
You are doing everything in your power to avoid abrogating our treaty.
Fiction book (1998) -
Yet one of the demands of the students was to abrogate that law.
Academic text (1992) -
And in so doing, we abrogate our promise that knowledge leads to wisdom.
Academic text (1995) -
Now Australia basically has abrogated the Refugee Convention.
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Previous constitutions had simply been abrogated and rewritten by the military.
Academic text (2001) -
A military coup in 1966 abrogated Nigeria's First Republic constitution and its legislative institutions.
Academic text (1993) -
And so we've become, in many ways, a country with an imperial presidency, a presidency that sometimes thinks it's above the law, a presidency that has abrogated to itself all sorts of powers.
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A Guatemalan environmental NGO attempted to abrogate the land-tenure rights of a local women's organization, Ixchel.
Academic text (1998) -
On 16 March 1935, Adolf Hitler formally abrogated Germany's adherence to the Versailles treaty's military clauses.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
224
1.0
To make a ticket, order, or rule no longer valid
122
5.6
Officially cancel a decision or law
112
4.1
To officially end a law, system, or practice
109
4.9
To officially cancel a previous decision, especially by a court
102
2.6
Cancel the effect of an action or decision
96
6.2
Officially stop something from being valid, for example a license
44
7.9
Officially cancel a law, order, or agreement
33
6.1
To make a document or agreement have no legal effect anymore
15
7.2
To make a law or contract have no legal effect
15
6.6
Cancel an official decision so it is no longer in effect
11
8.1
Officially say a decision or order is not valid
10
7.6
Cancel a court decision so it is no longer valid
6
6.3
Officially say that a law, contract, or marriage is no longer valid
To cancel an earlier decision that said something was not valid so it becomes valid again
To officially take away a law or custom
Antonyms
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Etymology
Abrogate comes from Latin parts ab- 'away' and rogare 'to ask', and the same 'rog' appears in interrogate ('to ask'). Think of it as 'asking a law to go away', so to abrogate a law is to officially cancel or repeal it.