Repeal

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1. Verb

To recall; to summon again, as persons.

2. Verb

To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.

3. Verb

To suppress; to repel.

4. Noun

Recall, as from exile.

5. Noun

Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.

6. Noun

the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
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