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Repeal vs Unrepealed - What's the difference?

repeal | unrepealed |

As a verb repeal

is to cancel, invalidate, annul.

As a noun repeal

is an act or instance of repealing.

As an adjective unrepealed is

not repealed.

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    • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.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

    *

    unrepealed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not repealed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1839, author=Thomas Clarkson, title=The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=On this day, the order for the call of the house, which had been prolonged, standing unrepealed , there was a large attendance of members. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Mahatma Gandhi, title=Freedom's Battle, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=All those laws which give to the irresponsible officers of the Executive Government of India absolute powers to override the popular will, are still unrepealed . }}