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Abrogated vs Repealed - What's the difference?

abrogated | repealed |

As verbs the difference between abrogated and repealed

is that abrogated is (abrogate) while repealed is (repeal).

abrogated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (abrogate)

  • abrogate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * abrogen (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Abrogated; abolished.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.4:
  • Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.

    Verb

    (abrogat)
  • To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
  • * (rfdate) (Robert South)
  • Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
  • * (Edmund Burke), 1796. Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.
  • Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate .
  • To put an end to; to do away with.
  • (molecular biology) Block a process or function
  • Synonyms

    * (to annul by authoritative act) abolish, annul, countermand, invalidate, nullify, overrule, overturn, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, set aside, supersede, suspend, undo, veto, void, waive, withdraw * (to put an end to) abjure, annihilate, cancel, dissolve, do away with, end, obliterate, obviate, recant, subvert, terminate, vitiate, wipe out

    Antonyms

    * establish * fix

    References

    repealed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (repeal)

  • repeal

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
  • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
  • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.
  • Anagrams

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