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to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)<the company called the furniture store to repeal the order for six new desks>— see cancel 1
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to put an end to by formal action<in 1933, Congress passed the 21st Amendment which repealed the Prohibition Amendment of 1919, thus making the sale, distribution, and use of alcohol legal once again>— see abolish
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