0 past simple and past participle of abolish
1 to end an activity or custom officially:
I think bullfighting should be abolished.
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.
