Repeal: Definition and part of speech

Repeal

  1. n. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
  2. v. t. To recall; to summon again, as persons.
  3. v. t. 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.
  4. v. t. To suppress; to repel.
  5. n. Recall, as from exile.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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