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• Senator Craddock wants to abolish the estate tax, and she's not alone.From the entry alone
• The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.From the entry amendment
• The Commonwealth of Kentucky abolished its felony murder rule decades ago, but many other states still have theirs on the books.From the entry felony murder rule
• Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry exception
• Abolishing compulsory voting would take Queensland back to Joh era, says Wayne Swan.2012 January 3, The Australian. From the entry Joh
• At Gutian, Mao made much of introducing a resolution to abolish the practice.2005, Jung Chang, Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story, New York: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry Gutian
• Once a parliament abolishes capital punishment, it's very hard to unabolish it.2001 May 14, in The New Yorker, reprinted in 2005 in Politics: Observations & Arguments, 1966-2004 (Hendrik Hertzberg). From the entry unabolish
• Established Tzuyun Miao and Pu-i Autonomous County, and abolished Tzuyun County.[1966 March 24 [1966 March 22], “Changes of Administrative Divisions Listed”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 57…. From the entry Ziyun
• The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.1961 December 10, John F. Kennedy, quotee, “‘Sword of Damocles’ Popular These Days”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 22. From the entry sword of Damocles
• Honan Province -- Kaifeng, Shangchiu, and Ningling counties of Kaifeng Special District are abolished.1960, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, numbers 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 9. From the entry Ningling
• The contingency is so remote, however, that the side chains have been abolished.1946 May and June, “The Why and The Wherefore: Miscellanea”, in Railway Magazine, pages 197–198. From the entry side chain
• It was a Chinese Emperor, Ming-Ti (a.d. 58-76), converted to Buddhism that abolished the penalty of death.1932, Mariadas Ruthnaswamy, The making of the state, page 102. From the entry humanize
• Engels says that, in seizing state power, the proletariat thereby “abolishes the state as state".1918, V. I. Lenin, “Class Society and the State”, in The State and Revolution, The “Withering Away” of the State, and Violent Revolution…. From the entry semi-state
• Officials of Iceland's Zuist congregation say they want to see the country's church tax and religious register abolished.2016, Debbie Nevins, Iceland: Third Edition, page 83. From the entry Zuist
• In the professional world, this is crystallized in the recently abolished slogan of the US army: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.2012, Margarita Alonso, Best Inclusion Practices: LGBT Diversity, Routledge. From the entry liberal homophobia
• Desktopping liberates women in that it abolishes the old studio-based, purely technical jobs usually held by men with engineering qualifications.2000, Janet Haworth, “Women in radio news: making a difference?”, in Caroline Mitchell, editor, Women and Radio: Airing Differences…. From the entry Jill of all trades and mistress of none
• A company which has issued numbered shares may abolish these numbers by passing a 'denumbering resolution' in general meeting.1987, Devey Fearon de l'Hoste Ranking, Ernest Evan Spicer, J. M. Gullick, Ranking and Spicer's Company law, page 111. From the entry denumber
• Puyang County is abolished and Puyang City is established to be under the direct leadership of the province.1983 November 3 [1983 October 27], “State Council Approves Administrative Changes”, in Daily Report: China, number 214, Foreign Broadcast…. From the entry Puyang
• The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government.1971, Hugo L. Black, New York Times Company v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, page 403 U.S. 713. From the entry free press
• Besides, under such a system, we would once and for all abolish the trivial "Spring forward, fall back."1971 October 28, Craig Hosmer, “Fiddling around with ‘God’s Time’”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 92d Congress…. From the entry spring forward, fall back
• Luanchuan County of Loyang Special District is abolished.1960, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volumes 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 10. From the entry Luanchuan
• Pig 22, who is the first pusher for those who wish to abolish forks, is a highly lunatised and brainish wug.1959, Compton Mackenzie, The Lunatic Republic, page 202. From the entry brainish
• As soon as the section is made the iris contracts, the lens comes forward and the anterior chamber is abolished.1911 July, Homer E. Smith, “Preliminary Capsulotomy—an Improved Method for the Extraction of the Immature Cataractous Lens. [abstract]”…. From the entry cystotome
• Its pathological nature is constituted by its perpetuation into an inappropriate movement which the conviction of its mutility cannot abolish.1910, The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume XI, page 217. From the entry mutility
• Many district councils (which handle things like rubbish and local planning) and county councils (social care, education and highways) are being abolished.2026 February 1, “Why lots of English towns are creating puny local governments: Mad for parish councils”, in The Economist. From the entry parish council
• The lesson to take away from Paul is not to be a semi-racist, isolationist politician who advocates for legalizing heroin and abolishing the Federal Reserve.2016, David Cahn, When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America. From the entry semiracist
• Similarly, while the law abolished formal distinctions, social norms and mores were slower to change, on the part of erstwhile senmin and nonabject people alike.2014, Joseph D. Hankins, Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan, page 21. From the entry nonabject
• In a first symbolic act, he abolished border checks for Pridnestrovians going to Moldova (though not on those coming back to the secessionist region).2013, John O’Loughlin, Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) & Rebecca Chamberlain-Creangă, "Divided space, divided attitudes? Comparing the…. From the entry Pridnestrovian
• It proposed to abolish anything definite and categorical and put in its place that which is no more than situational, contextual, and ephemeral.2012, Nicholas Rescher, Pragmatism: The Restoration of Its Scientific Roots. From the entry foremake
• BrOXY itself does not stimulate cyclase activity, but preincubation with high concentrations of BrOXY (10⁻⁴ M) abolishes the stimulatory effect of the natural vasoactive hormones.2012, Gerald Litwack, Biochemical Actions of Hormones - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry broxy
• Jedden had long ago abolished fear.2009, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction. From the entry wandering star
• They can take heart, however, from the precedents: foot binding and widow burning, once widespread in China and India, respectively, have been abolished.2003, Suzanne LaFont, Constructing Sexualities: Readings in Sexuality, Gender, and Culture, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry anti-circumcisionist
• Characteristically, perhaps, it was at the moment when political rights for the unpropertied were on the statute-books, but not enforced, that the Revolutionaries abolished slavery.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 563. From the entry unpropertied
• Aurangzeb abolished the celebration and fairs that weie held to mark the occasion as being un-Islamic in general and un-Sunni in particular.1990, G Sholapurkur, Religious Rites and Festivals of India, page 308. From the entry un-Sunni
• Prime Minister Sidney Holland is New Zealander of the Year for appointing a parliamentary suicide squad to abolish the undemocratic upper house, the Legislative Council.1950 October 17, “1950, Sydney Holland: Honourable suicide squad”, in New Zealand Herald. From the entry suicide squad
• And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling.2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 71. From the entry rustling
• The latter, unburdened by the need to maintain a Hàn Chinese façade, simply (after a period of failed experimentation) abolished the institution of an heir apparent altogether.2012, Sanping Chen, Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry Hàn Chinese
• Furthermore, our open publication of a proposal offering to abolish slavery will be viewed everywhere as an indication that the Confederacy is militarily and politically weak.2006, John Crouch, The Monocacy Legacy, page 220. From the entry beg for one's life
• And then I can clean out the Augean stables: abolish the National Executive for what they did to Cookie, and abolish the primacy of the State branches.2004 April 27, Mark Latham, “2004 Pre-election”, in The Latham Diaries, Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, published 2005, →ISBN…. From the entry Augean stables

Meaning of abolish

1. verb To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
2. verb To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.

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How do you use abolish in a sentence?

Abolish is used as a verb. For example: “Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.”

What is a short sentence with abolish?

“Jedden had long ago abolished fear.”

What does abolish mean?

Abolish means to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.