0 present 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.
Will a human user be comfortable with abrogating all responsibilities to the machine?
When you go further and refer a disputed territory to arbitration, you are not abrogating the rights and privileges of that particular area.
Will he consider the desirability of entirely abrogating that charge?
He said that if a miner became unemployed, the insurance company would try to find ways of abrogating its responsibilities.
I cannot see how the development councils can be prevented from abrogating these functions in the process of time.