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:
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.
What is important is that the centre should not, in the name of decentralization, abrogate responsibility which only the centre is capable of fulfilling.
The new tariff broke this ceiling and the distribution agreement abrogated.
Therapies designed to directly abrogate neuronal excitotoxicity might also prove to be advantageous.
Teratogenic effects of neonatal arenavirus infection on the developing rat cerebellum are abrogated by passive immunotherapy.
