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abrogating

/ab-ruh-geyt/US // ˈæb rəˌgeɪt //UK // (ˈæbrəʊˌɡeɪt) //

废弃的,弃权的,废除,废止

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ab·ro·gat·ed, ab·ro·gat·ing.

    • : to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal: to abrogate a law.
    • : to put aside; put an end to.

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Examples

  • He also noted that the US had made nearly 400 treaties with the tribes—“confirmed by the Senate as are treaties with foreign powers”—but that many had been abrogated.

  • “The government cannot just abrogate contracts,” Larry Summers said yesterday.

  • It was not necessary to abolish all, but inevitable to abrogate much that was looked upon as obligatory.

  • Why should the ruling classes seek to abrogate the treaties and defy foreign powers?

  • Again interpretative ordinances were called in to abrogate a portion of the law itself.

  • Why should a close relationship abrogate respectful courtesy?

  • I know that the moderns being ashamed of it, wish to abrogate it, and to throw it off from themselves upon the early heretics.