Usually means: Formally revoke, nullify, or abolish.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. abrogate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abrogate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abrogate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abrogate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abrogate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abrogate, abrogate: Wordnik
  7. abrogate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abrogate: Wiktionary
  9. abrogate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abrogate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abrogate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abrogate: Dictionary.com
  13. abrogate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Abrogate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Abrogate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. abrogate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. abrogate: Rhymezone
  18. Abrogate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. abrogate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. abrogate: Free Dictionary
  21. abrogate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. abrogate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. abrogate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Abrogate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. abrogate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. abrogate: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. abrogate: Legal dictionary
  7. abrogate: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrogate: A Word A Day

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive, law) To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put an end to; to do away with.
▸ verb:  (molecular biology, transitive) To block a process or function.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Abrogated; abolished.

Similar:
obrogate, annihilate, abolish, repeal, annul, abate, fordo, avoid, do away with, defease, more...

Opposite:
ratify

Types:
rescind, repeal, revoke, cancel, void, invalidate, nullify, more...

Phrases:
opposite of abrogate, more...


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Similar:
obrogate, annihilate, abolish, repeal, annul, abate, fordo, avoid, do away with, defease, more...

Opposite:
ratify

Types:
rescind, repeal, revoke, cancel, void, invalidate, nullify, more...

Phrases:
opposite of abrogate, more...



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