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eliminate (end, or do away with)- She is in favor of abolishing the death penalty.
abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
- The dictator's first move was to abolish free speech and a free press.
- As part of his social agenda, the Captain abolished the worst aspects of the company-store system in Coalwood.Homer Hickam -- October Sky
- We have abolished parole in many states.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- He did something which our democratic rulers hadn't, even Benazir, and abolished the law that stated that for a woman to prove she was raped, she had to produce four male witnesses.Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
- When Albert died on February 26, 1889, slavery had been abolished, but few black people owned land of their own.Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.John F. Kennedy -- Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You
- But then in the 1780s a few indignant Britons, led by William Wilberforce, decided that slavery was so offensive that they had to abolish it.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- 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.Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Declaration of Sentiments
- The Bird's rules were abolished.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- The constitutional monarchy had been abolished, replaced by a republic, led by a president of the republic.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
- 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.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Only a handful of students wanted to work for the Wave, and I ended up writing so many of the articles that I abolished bylines; it looked a little ridiculous having my name appear four times on the front page.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- 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.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- It was also dedicated to abolishing the evil institution of slavery.Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
- ...mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence
- He could not of course know — for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it — that the name 'Animal Farm' had been abolished.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
- He announced that, by a special decree of Comrade Napoleon, Beasts of England had been abolished.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
- They were the same four pigs as had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
abolish = eliminate (do away with)
abolished = eliminated (did away with)
abolished = eliminated (done away with)
abolished = eliminated (did away with)
abolished = eliminated (did away with)
abolish = eliminate (end, or do away with)
abolish = eliminate (end, or do away with)
abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
abolished = eliminated (done away with)
abolished = eliminated (done away with)
abolished = eliminated (done away with)
abolished = eliminated
abolished = eliminated (did away with)
abolish = eliminate (do away with)
abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
abolished = eliminated (done away with)
abolished = eliminated (done away with)
abolished = eliminated (did away with)
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