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repealingverbpresent participle of repeal 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 abandoning, aborting, calling, calling off, canceling(or cancelling), crying off, dropping, recalling, rescinding, revoking, scrapping, scrubbing abrogating, annulling, invalidating, nullifying, voiding, writing offrecanting, retracting, taking back, withdrawingcountermanding, reversing, rolling backbreaking off, discontinuing, ending, halting, stopping, terminatingholding back, interrupting, suspendinggiving up, relinquishing, surrendering continuing, keeping engaging, pledging, promisingbeginning, commencing, initiating, startingtaking on, taking up, undertaking to put an end to by formal actionin 1933, Congress passed the 21st Amendment which repealed the Prohibition Amendment of 1919, thus making the sale, distribution, and use of alcohol legal once again abating, abolishing, abrogating, annulling, avoiding, canceling(or cancelling), disannulling, dissolving, invalidating, negating, nullifying, nulling, quashing, rescinding, rolling back, striking down, vacating, voiding countermanding, overriding, overruling, overturning, vetoingaborting, calling, calling off, dropping, recalling, retracting, reversing, revoking, suspending, withdrawingbanning, enjoining, forbidding, outlawing, prohibitingdisallowing, dismissing, rejectingannihilating, breaking down, eliminating, eradicating, erasing, liquidating, removing, throwing out, writing off doing away with, setting aside enacting, laying down, legislatingestablishing, founding, institutingformalizing, legalizing, legitimating, legitimizing, validatingpassing, ratifyingallowing, approving, authorizing, clearing, endorsing(also indorsing), permitting, sanctioning, warrantingcommanding, decreeing, mandating, ordering, prescribing to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to)if I find that you have been lying about this, I'll instantly repeal every promise I made to you abjuring, abnegating, forswearing(also foreswearing), recanting, reneging, renouncing, repudiating, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawing contradicting, denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, gainsaying, negating, negativingabandoning, bolting, forsaking, giving up, relinquishing, spurning, surrenderingcontroverting, disagreeing (with), disproving, disputing, rebutting, refutingbacking down, backing off, backtrackingdisallowing, recalling, revoking adhering (to) acknowledging, admitting, affirming, asserting, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, maintaining, proclaiming, professing, stating, vouching, vowingbacking, confirming, defending, endorsing(also indorsing), espousing, maintaining, supporting, upholdingaccepting, adopting, embracing |