0 present 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.
Moreover, instead of abolishing referrals, it argued in favour of harmonisation of the national procedures.
Instead, they invoked these same values for abolishing cruel penalities.
This demonstrates that magnesium-free medium and picrotoxin are abolishing directional selectivity by different mechanisms.