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Definition
eliminate (end, or do away with)
- The relic of barbarism, the primitive commune with each guarantee for all, will disappear of itself; serfdom has been abolished—there remains nothing but free labor, and its forms are fixed and ready made, and must be adopted.Part Three (85% in)
- No sooner were the spirit monopolies abolished than the railways came up, and banking companies; that, too, is profit without work.Part Six (31% in)
There are no more uses of "abolish" in Anna Karenina.
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