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Synonyms for repeal
rɪˈpilre·peal
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Wiktionary
repealverb
Synonyms:
cancel, revoke, veto, invalidate, annulrepealverb
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
Synonyms:
annul, invalidate, cancel, veto, revoke
English Synonyms and Antonyms
repeal
Abolish, to do away with, bring absolutely to an end, especially as something hostile, hindering, or harmful, was formerly used of persons and material objects, a usage now obsolete except in poetry or highly figurative speech. Abolish is now used of institutions, customs, and conditions, especially those wide-spread and long existing; as, to abolish slavery, ignorance, intemperance, poverty. A building that is burned to the ground is said to be destroyed by fire. Annihilate, as a philosophical term, signifies to put absolutely out of existence. As far as our knowledge goes, matter is never annihilated, but only changes its form. Some believe that the wicked will be annihilated. Abolish is not said of laws. There we use repeal, abrogate, nullify, etc.: repeal by the enacting body, nullify by revolutionary proceedings; a later statute abrogates, without formally repealing, any earlier law with which it conflicts. An appellate court may reverse or set aside the decision of an inferior court. Overthrow may be used in either a good or a bad sense; suppress is commonly in a good, subvert always in a bad sense; as, to subvert our liberties; to suppress a rebellion. The law prohibits what may never have existed; it abolishes an existing evil. We abate a nuisance, terminate a controversy. Compare CANCEL; DEMOLISH; EXTERMINATE.
Synonyms:
abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, destroy, end, end, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, nullify, obliterate, overthrow, prohibit, remove, reverse, revoke, set aside, stamp out, subvert, supplant, suppress, terminateAntonyms:
authorize, cherish, confirm, continue, enact, establish, institute, introduce, legalize, promote, reinstate, renew, repair, restore, revive, set up, support, sustain
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
repeal
Antonyms:
continue, establish, pass, institute, sanction, enact, perpetuate, confirmrepealnoun
Synonyms:
abrogation, rescission, revocation, annulmentAntonyms:
continuance, establishment, perpetuation
Princeton's WordNet
abrogation, repeal, annulmentverb
the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
Synonyms:
annulment, invalidation, revocation, abrogationrevoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacateverb
cancel officially
"He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
Synonyms:
nullify, cabbage, revolutionise, hook, bring down, rise, wind, avoid, quash, hoist, annul, elevate, uprise, resign, empty, abandon, overrule, lift, turn over, nobble, go up, pinch, overthrow, plagiarize, arise, invert, abstract, rescind, bowl over, come up, turn back, bring up, plagiarise, pilfer, filch, change by reversal, give up, purloin, snarf, subvert, overturn, invalidate, override, raise, revolutionize, renounce, sneak, tip over, get up, upset, move up, swipe, reverse, airlift, revoke, rear, tump over, turn, face-lift, knock over, vacate, rustle, void, countermand
Dictionary of English Synonymes
repealverb
Synonyms:
abrogate (a law), rescind, REVOKE, annul, cancel, abolish, set aside, do away, make voidrepealnoun
Synonyms:
abrogation, revocation, rescission, rescinding, annulment
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
repealnoun
Synonyms:
revocation, rescission, abrogationrepealverb
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "repeal":
abrogation, repealing, abrogate, revoke, revocation, abolition, rescind, repealed, abolish, derogation, repeals, abolishment, cancellation, cancel, lifting, abolishing, disallowance, annul, annulment, withdrawal, lift, waiver, removal
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How to use repeal in a sentence?
The initiative is not a repeal, it's doubling down on the discrimination that HB2 exacts -- it's HB2.0. It doesn't allow municipalities to protect people from discrimination 'til 2020.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
It is my hope that the administration will be willing to accept important limits in a new authorization as well as the sunset or repeal of the old [ authorizations ], as this will be necessary to ensure strong bipartisan support and meet the goals the president set last summer of refining and repealing the prior authorizations.
This is a war, we are going to keep mobilizing our communities, our families, and social organizations ... toward the repeal of the education reform.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution.
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