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third-person singular simple present abolishes, present participle abolishing, simple past and past participle abolished or (obsolete) abolisht
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice. quotations examples
The abolition of the death penalty in international law
2002, William Schabas, The abolition of the death penalty in international law, Cambridge University Press, title
(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out. quotations
And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.
1892, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint