Usually means: Formally put an end to.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word abolish:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. abolish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abolish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abolish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abolish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abolish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abolish, abolish: Wordnik
  7. abolish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abolish: Wiktionary
  9. abolish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abolish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abolish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abolish: Dictionary.com
  13. abolish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. abolish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Abolish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Abolish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. abolish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. abolish: Rhymezone
  19. abolish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. abolish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. abolish: Free Dictionary
  22. abolish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. abolish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. abolish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. abolish: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. abolish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abolish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abolish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See abolishable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
verb:  (archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.

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