ABOLISH Copy link • ABOLISHtollere (the proper word: e.g., an office, law, magistracy, tax, etc.): abolere (Vid: history, quite to remove and make invalid laws, customs, religion, wills): abrogare (to abolish by the authority of the people; a law, decree; also a magistracy): derogare legi or aliquid de lege (of a partial abolition; but sometimes with accusative forabrogare, Ochsn., Cic.., Eclog., p. 85): obrogare legi (to render it a dead letter, wholly or in part, by a subsequent enactment): solvere, dissolvere, resolvere (to abolish a custom, , etc., also adimere consuetudinem, Tac.): rescindere (to cancel and make void; e.g., decrees, compacts, wills, etc.): inducere (to strike out, a resolution, a decree, of the Senate, a contract, locationem): pervertere (abolish by violence; laws, justice, etc.). Destroy, delere (blot out; hence, deprive of its existence): exstinguere (to put out, and so cause to cease; hope, spem, etc.): tollere (to take away; destroy, urbem, legem, etc.): evertere (to overthrow; urbem, rempublicam, reipublicae fundaments): subvertere (to overthrow, imperium, leges, libertatem): perdere (to destroy completely, fruges, etc.). To utterly abolish, funditus tollere, evertere, etc.