0 to end a law, agreement, or custom formally: --
The treaty was abrogated in 1929.
1 to avoid something that you should do: --
2 to officially end a law, agreement, or custom: --
Within five days, a petition, iterating their desire for the king to ' abrogate or moderate ' action against the nonconforming ministers, also had been devised.
As this example illustrates, no single word stands out as an obvious analogue for abrogated.
The managers of this school have, in effect, abrogated their responsibility for music.
The three severest forms of punishments must be immediately abrogated.
He thus abrogated the right of lineage leaders to control their own daughters.
Disruption of this signaling may abrogate maintenance of the stem cell niche and lead to preneoplastic conditions.
Such early coincidence detection would be a very effective mechanism to abrogate the background signal represented by thermal and uncorrelated visual events.
The courts have treated the benefits of approved projects as a legal right that the government cannot abrogate unilaterally.