Repeal
verb (used with object)
1.
to revoke or withdraw formally or officially:
to repeal a grant.
2.
to revoke or annul (a law, tax, duty, etc.) by express legislative enactment; abrogate.
noun
3.
the act of repealing; revocation; abrogation.
verb (transitive)
1.
to annul or rescind officially (something previously ordered); revoke: these laws were repealed
2.
(obsolete) to call back (a person) from exile
noun
3.
an instance or the process of repealing; annulment
noun the Repeal
1.
(esp in the 19th century) the proposed dissolution of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland
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