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Set_aside vs Repeal - What's the difference?

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Set_aside is a related term of repeal.


As verbs the difference between set_aside and repeal

is that set_aside is (idiomatic) to separate and reserve something for a specific purpose while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.

As a noun repeal is

an act or instance of repealing.

set_aside

English

Verb

  • (idiomatic) To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.
    • Plan to set aside three or four hours to see the museum.
  • (idiomatic) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
  • * Tillotson
    • Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that.
  • (idiomatic) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
  • (idiomatic) To declare something invalid or null and void.

    • Antonyms

    * raise, beg (as in beg the question) (of a question)

    See also

    * set-aside

    Anagrams

    * * * English phrasal verbs

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    • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.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