Verb

(en verb)

To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

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Verb

(es)

To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.

Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.

* 2002', William Schabas, ''The '''abolition of the death penalty in international law (Cambridge University Press):

(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.

* :

And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.

* :

His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.