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abolished
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abolish \A*bol"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abolished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Abolishing .] [F. abolir, L. abolere, aboletum; ab + olere to grow. Cf. Finish .] To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: abolish )
Usage examples of abolished.
Production has been abolished, and reproduced mass-media images circulate randomly and fragmentarily on their own, having outlived their ostensible purpose of creating demand and stimulating sales.
Ownership has never been abolished, there are still capitalists and workers, and -- this is the important point, and the real reason why rich men all over the world tend to sympathize with Fascism -- generally speaking the same people are capitalists and the same people workers as before the Nazi revolution.
But in those abolished days she had never once struck back, she had been faint of heart, cowed and terrified, and had lacked what two years of separation had given her, that spiritual independence which never before had been able to realize itself, lift up its head, and grow strong in the assurance of its own integrity.
This message sealed into a second envelope without superscription, he lighted a cigarette and sat smiling with anticipative relish through its smoke, a smile swiftly abolished as the door re-opened.
Such is the inconceivable, infinite distance of cyberspace: the distance that remains when all distance has been abolished, or the delay that manifests itself when all communication is instantaneous.
He pictured Ferne crying for him, her cheery nature abolished, her brown eyes turning red, and that hurt worse.
Just as Vidav's experience with the healing fire abolished his fear of fire, so that he had hardly reacted even when burned by their torches, this fish spell had ended Seth's fear.
The twenty-fourth century had not yet abolished God, but it had abolished organized religion.
Totalitarianism has abolished freedom of thought to an extent unheard of in any previous age.
It is merely that privation and brute labour have to be abolished before the real problems of humanity can be tackled.
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitorial torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816.