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unabolish

unabolish verb: to reinstate (a law or institution which had been abolished).

Verb

unabolish (third-person singular simple present unabolishes, present participle unabolishing, simple past and past participle unabolished)

  1. (rare) To reinstate (a law or institution which had been abolished).
    • Once a parliament abolishes capital punishment, it's very hard to unabolish it. And the European Union has made abolition a de facto condition of membership.2001 May 14, in The New Yorker, reprinted in 2005 in Politics: Observations & Arguments, 1966-2004 (Hendrik Hertzberg)

Forms of unabolish

third-person singular presentunabolishes
present participleunabolishing
past participleunabolished
pastunabolished

Origin of unabolish

From un- + abolish.

Questions about unabolish

What does unabolish mean?
Unabolish means to reinstate (a law or institution which had been abolished).
What part of speech is unabolish?
Unabolish is a verb.
What is the past tense of unabolish?
The past tense of unabolish is unabolished.

Words near unabolish in the dictionary

  1. unables
  2. unablest
  3. unabling
  4. unabluted
  5. unably
  6. unabolish
  7. unabolishable
  8. unabolished
  9. unabolishes
  10. unabolishing
  11. Unabomber

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