0 to end an activity or custom officially:
I think bullfighting should be abolished.
1 to put an end to something, such as an organization, rule, or custom:
2 to end an activity, custom, etc. completely or by law or official action:
Educationalists have called on the government to abolish tax on computers.
The government has pledged to abolish child poverty by 2020.
The government ought to abolish the tax altogether.
The government is planning to abolish subsidies to farmers.
Is monarchy relevant in the modern world or should it be abolished?
Gradually the laws that underpinned apartheid were abolished.
However, rural reform has not abolished such ruralism but replaced it with its own version.
For these regions, this tax may now be abolished.
To placate his enemies, restrictions on the freedom of the press were first eased and then abolished.
