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repeal
[ ri-peel ]
verb (used with object)
- to revoke or withdraw formally or officially:
to repeal a grant.
- to revoke or annul (a law, tax, duty, etc.) by express legislative enactment; abrogate.
Synonyms: invalidate, rescind, abolish, nullify
noun
- the act of repealing; revocation; abrogation.
repeal
1/ rɪˈpiːl /
verb
- to annul or rescind officially (something previously ordered); revoke
these laws were repealed
- obsolete.to call back (a person) from exile
noun
- an instance or the process of repealing; annulment
Repeal
2/ rɪˈpiːl /
noun
- (esp in the 19th century) the proposed dissolution of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland
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Derived Forms
- reˈpealable, adjective
- reˈpealer, noun
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Other Words From
- re·peala·bili·ty re·peala·ble·ness noun
- re·peala·ble adjective
- re·pealer noun
- nonre·peala·ble adjective
- unre·peala·bili·ty noun
- unre·peala·ble adjective
- unre·pealed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of repeal1
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Example Sentences
Despite the financial remedy, partial repeal of the screen quota has imperiled the domestic market.
The Affordable Care Act is safely embedded, with repeal unlikely even with a freshly minted Republican Senate.
That should include an alternative to Obamacare, and not just a repeal.
The Republican Senate would "do everything humanly possibly to repeal Obamacare," Cruz promised.
He wants to repeal Obamacare, and he wants to be confrontational.
The League Oracle admits that "a repeal would injure the farmer, but not so much as he fears."
In spite of this change, Parliament refused to repeal the three pence duty tax on tea which still had to be paid by the colonists.
In spite of this repeal, friction between colonial legislatures and royal Governors continued.
On the other hand, several attempts have been made to repeal the general poll tax.
He asked, what was meant by the watch-word of repeal of the union between Great Britain and Ireland.
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