Word Meanings - REPEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

re- re- + OF. apeler, F. appeler, to call, L. appellare. See Appeal, 1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. Shak. 2. To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute;

Additional info about word: REPEAL

re- re- + OF. apeler, F. appeler, to call, L. appellare. See Appeal, 1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. Shak. 2. 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. To suppress; to repel. Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose. Milton. Syn. -- To abolish; revoke; rescind; recall; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPEAL)

• Abrogate
• Abolish
• cancel
• set aside
• annul
• repeal
• expunge
• rescind
• Abrogation
• Abolition
• discontinuance
• disestablishment
• Annul
• Cancel
• obliterate
• make void
• quash
• nullify
• revoke
• destroy
• abrogate
• extinguish
• abolish
• Efface
• blot out
• discharge
• erase
• countervail
• Nullify
• neutralize

Related words: (words related to REPEAL)

• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• REPEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being repealable.
• ABOLITIONIST
  A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• ANNUL
  1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws,
• ANNULARITY
  Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.
• ABOLISHMENT
  The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• COUNTERVAIL
  To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
• ANNULOID
  Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.
• EFFACE
  1. To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin. 2. To destroy,
• EFFACEABLE
  Capable of being effaced.
• ABOLISH
  1. To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly. 2. To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. And with thy blood abolish
• REPEAL
  re- re- + OF. apeler, F. appeler, to call, L. appellare. See Appeal, 1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. Shak. 2. To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute;
• QUASHEE
  A negro of the West Indies.
• ABROGATE
  Abrogated; abolished. Latimer.
• DISANNULLER
  One who disannuls.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• INEFFACEABLE
  Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.
• SEMIANNULAR
  Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• IRREPEALABLE
  Not repealable; not capable of being repealed or revoked, as a law. -- Ir`re*peal"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*peal"a*bly, adv.