Abolish vs Prohibition - What's the difference?
abolish | prohibition |
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
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(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
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An act of prohibiting]], forbidding, disallowing, or [[proscribe, proscribing something.
A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
As a verb abolish
is to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice .As a proper noun prohibition is
(history) any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.abolish
English
Verb
(es)- Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
- And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
- His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.