Sample Sentences for
abolish
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    He meant those regions where men who lived by ancient tribal laws had rebelled against the communists and their decrees to liberate women, to abolish forced marriage, to raise the minimum marriage age to sixteen for girls.  (source)
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    You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated
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    We have abolished parole in many states.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
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    That book wasn't even written until a century after slavery was abolished.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated
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    He would not dare abolish a personal prelature established by a previous Pope!  (source)
    abolish = eliminate
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    It was also dedicated to abolishing the evil institution of slavery.  (source)
    abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
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    Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.†  (source)
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    For those several times he had made her change "total abolishment" (vollstandige Abschaffung) to Vernichtung.†  (source)
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    The Bird's rules were abolished.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
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    The proposed Constitution doesn't abolish the State governments.  (source)
    abolish = eliminate
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    Prudence indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed.  (source)
    abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
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    But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.†  (source)
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    Toward the end of 1938, in the full flood of his passion, he began working on his magnum opus, the aforementioned pamphlet, in which for the first time he broached the idea—very cautiously, backing and filling with a circumspection bordering on the ambiguous—of "total abolishment."†  (source)
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