0 past simple and past participle of abrogate
1 to end a law, agreement, or custom formally:
The treaty was abrogated in 1929.
2 to avoid something that you should do:
Those in power abrogated their responsibility.
The government is abrogating its duty to protect the safety of its citizens.
Some parents completely abrogate responsibility for parenting to schools.
And lastly, the government abrogated the subsidy that derived from forgiving the value-added tax, which was most of the subsidy to industrial promotion.
The new tariff broke this ceiling and the distribution agreement abrogated.
Teratogenic effects of neonatal arenavirus infection on the developing rat cerebellum are abrogated by passive immunotherapy.
The first, daring and startling, is indicative of how far he has abrogated architectural convention.
He thus abrogated the right of lineage leaders to control their own daughters.
