abolish
verb /əˈbɒlɪʃ/
/əˈbɑːlɪʃ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they abolish | /əˈbɒlɪʃ/ /əˈbɑːlɪʃ/ |
| he / she / it abolishes | /əˈbɒlɪʃɪz/ /əˈbɑːlɪʃɪz/ |
| past simple abolished | /əˈbɒlɪʃt/ /əˈbɑːlɪʃt/ |
| past participle abolished | /əˈbɒlɪʃt/ /əˈbɑːlɪʃt/ |
| -ing form abolishing | /əˈbɒlɪʃɪŋ/ /əˈbɑːlɪʃɪŋ/ |
- abolish something to officially end a law, a system or an institution
- This tax should be abolished.
Extra Examples- Some MPs want to abolish the tax altogether.
- Some say the tax should be abolished entirely.
- The new immigration act effectively abolishes quotas on immigrants.
- Over the past six years we have abolished a whole range of direct taxes.
- Slavery was abolished in the US in 1865.
- They outlined the arguments for abolishing the monarchy.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- altogether
- completely
- entirely
- …
- seek to
- decide to
- vote to
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French aboliss-, lengthened stem of abolir, from Latin abolere ‘destroy’.