abolishes

present tense third-person singular of abolish
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Recent Examples of abolishes Instead, this measure abolishes them. Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025 The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abolishes
Verb
  • Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.
    Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Federal Emergency Management Agency cancels National Fire Training Academy classes.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
  • SpaceX cancels a launch to bring astronauts home.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Reducing Zarutska’s cruel and untimely death to racist memes also erases the role that mental health — something that Republicans are happy to bring up whenever a white mass shooter guns down Americans in cold blood — likely played in the ghastly crime.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Something that erases any evidence of itself?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The new work overturns that picture.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The decision overturns a ruling by a lower-court judge in 2023 who had declared the law unconstitutional after previously blocking it from taking effect in 2021.
    Reuters, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Producing traditional paper destroys trees and is resource-intensive, requiring up to 13 liters of water for every page made.
    Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In those situations, the team typically takes the potentially explosive item to a remote area and destroys it, just to be safe, Putthoff said.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Shifting key conversations to group settings builds alignment, avoids silos and saves time.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The new system avoids this brute-force approach.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Abolishes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abolishes. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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