abrogate
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Is abrogate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, law) To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.Examples: "But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old."; "Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate."; "The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated."Synonyms: abolish, annul, countermand, invalidate, nullify, overrule, overturn, quashtransitive
2. (transitive) To put an end to; to do away with.Synonyms: abjure, annihilate, cancel, dissolve, do away with, end, obliterate, obviatetransitive
3. (molecular biology, transitive) To block a process or function.transitive
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Abrogated; abolished.Examples: "Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease."archaicnot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary