| 单词 | abolish |
| 释义 | abol·ish 1. < abolish slavery > < abolished bedtime during the holidays > 2. < a fog … abolished the landscape — Aldous Huxley > Synonyms: < abolish racial discrimination > < trying to abolish child labor > < abolishing a primitive custom > < no plan will be acceptable unless it abolishes poverty — G.B.Shaw > < the political liberalism which threatened to abolish some of the most flagrant abuses in the Church of England — W.R.Inge > < unfair that the anonymous churl, with an iron tube and some gunpowder and a great slug of lead, could abolish a knight — Tom Wintringham > annihilate indicates utter destruction precluding any chance of re-creation, reforming, revivifying < the events of this week annihilated the immature plans of last week — Charles Dickens > < the pollution of the Delaware river and bay by sewage and chemicals has practically annihilated the sturgeon — American Guide Series: Delaware > < the realization that for the first time the homes and cities of the United States itself can be annihilated by enemy attack — Aidan Crawley > extinguish may suggest a putting out, choking off, stifling, smothering, as water extinguishes fire < Italy, where the instincts of ancient Rome never were extinguished — H.O.Taylor > < a religion of their own which was thoroughly and painfully extinguished by the Inquisition — T.S.Eliot > < though the literal extirpation of a nation is an impossibility, there is every reason to believe that the Celtic inhabitants of those parts of Britain which had become English at the end of the sixth century had been as nearly extinguished as a nation could be — A.T.Quiller-Couch > abate, now almost always a synonym for lessen or decrease, in legal usage may indicate abolishing or bringing to an end < abate a nuisance > |
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