Vocabulary
Abolish
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution).
Urdu meaning
بالکل ختم کر دینا، منسوخ کرنا،موقوف کرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Reduce the tiers in the bureaucratic hierarchy, merge divisions which have proliferated and abolish posts lying vacant for over three years.
- His order seeks to undermine a foundational guarantee of equality before the law, reinstating an insidious idea of exclusion that the 14th Amendment sought to abolish.
- His order seeks to undermine a foundational guarantee of equality before the law, reinstating an insidious idea of exclusion that the 14th Amendment sought to abolish.
- The proposed legislation, however, does not abolish the controversial category of non-filers, contrary to repeated announcements by our finance managers in the recent past.
- However, it does not propose any step to abolish the category of non-filers that exists only in Pakistan.
Synonyms
put an end to, do away with, get rid of, scrap, end, stop, terminate, eradicate
Curator example
“the tax was abolished in 1977”
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