Scrap vs Abolish - What's the difference?
scrap | abolish |
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
* De Quincey
(usually, in the plural) Leftover food.
Discarded material (especially metal), junk.
(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
To discard.
(of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
To dispose of at a scrapyard.
To make into scrap.
to fight
To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
* 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.
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As verbs the difference between scrap and abolish
is that scrap is to discard or scrap can be to fight while abolish is to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice .As a noun scrap
is a (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion or scrap can be a fight, tussle, skirmish.scrap
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) scrappe, from (etyl) skrap, fromNoun
(en noun)- I have no materials — not a scrap .
- I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
- Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.
- That car isn't good for anything but scrap .
- pork scraps
Derived terms
* scrap paper * scrapbook * scrapheap * scrappy * scrapyardVerb
(scrapp)Derived terms
* scrapperEtymology 2
Verb
(scrapp)Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologiesabolish
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.