(v. t.) To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.
(v. t.) To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(3) This difference was abolished by exposure of the slices to propranolol, a beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist.
(4) Hexamethonium abolished vasodilatation in the hindquarters vascular bed only.
(5) The asthma group's fall in FEV1 was also abolished.
(6) When nifedipine was combined with ouabain the elevation of vascular resistance was completely abolished.
(7) Ultraviolet difference spectrophotometry indicates that the inactivated enzyme retains its capacity for binding the nucleotide substrates whereas the spectral perturbation characteristic of 3-phosphoglycerate binding is abolished in the modified enzyme.
(8) In contrast, methysergide, ketanserin and 6-OHDA abolished the antisecretory effect of morphine.
(9) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
(10) In contrast, castration during pseudopregnancy did not abolish the secondary peaks.
(11) After methylene blue, the gradient in resting potential across the circular layer was greatly reduced or abolished.
(12) The twitches elicited by 0.1 msec pulses were abolished by tetrodotoxin, but were not reduced by dimethyltubocurarine or by hexamethonium.
(13) Exposure to alloxan completely abolished insulin response to 20 mM arginine, 1.6 mM glucose, and 11.1 mM glucose.
(14) Incubation of sensitized bladder tissue with indomethacin led to an increased force and duration of the contraction while incubation with nordihydroguaiaretic acid combined with pyrilamine reduced histamine release and abolished the contraction.
(15) A 4 base pair mutation in the enhancer sequence shown previously to abolish activity in vivo [Boulet, A. M., Erwin, C. R., & Rutter, W. J.
(16) Nocturnal ST segment changes were abolished in six patients on atenolol, in six patients on nifedipine, and in five patients on isosorbide mononitrate.
(17) This established that the Gly----Glu substitution at amino acid 142 is sufficient to abolish enzymatic activity and to result in the chylomicronemia syndrome observed in these patients.
(18) The detergent lauryl maltoside abolishes respiratory control and proton ejection by cytochrome c oxidase-containing proteoliposomes over a narrow concentration range.
(19) Furthermore, even the action of Lys-5 on the Pseudomonas OM was abolished when the assays were performed in the presence of 150 mM NaCl instead of the low-ionic strength buffer earlier used by investigators studying the effect of polycations on the Pseudomonas OM.
(20) Finally, the uptake was completely abolished by prior mechanical or osmotic destruction of the intima.
Abolitionist
Definition:
(n.) A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The film, which also stars Michael Fassbender as a sadistic plantation owner – as well as Brad Pitt, who is also the producer, in a minor role as an abolitionist – is leading the charge for next month's Golden Globes (alongside David O Russell's American Hustle) with seven nominations .
(2) The abolitionists' arguments might work if every woman selling sex was desperate to stop doing so, and if there was a comprehensive support package in place to help women exit prostitution and provide them with lucrative, alternative employment.
(3) Among the list of eminent speakers on the platform at the inaugural meeting in November 1955 – at the Central Methodist hall in Westminster – was the novelist JB Priestley, Lord Pakenham (later Lord Longford, a member of the incoming Labour government in 1964, and a lifelong penal reformer), Gerald Gardiner QC (Labour’s lord chancellor from 1964-70) as Lord Gardiner, a passionate law reformer and ardent abolitionist, and CH Rolph (a prominent writer and a former inspector of police in the City of London).
(4) Wilberforce discovered that the state can sometimes "be an impediment to change", Hague noted, a selective interpretation of the complex abolitionist story.
(5) It capped a celebration of Pelé started by the presentation of an honorary degree by Hofstra University this weekend — itself the centerpiece of one of the largest soccer conferences ever held in the USA, 'Soccer as the Beautiful Game: Football’s Artistry, Identity and Politics' featuring over 100 speakers from around the world, including the likes of David Goldblatt ('The Ball is Round') and an intriguing proposition from Dr Jennifer Doyle, of the University of California, Riverside: 'Imagining a World Without a World Cup: An Abolitionist Perspective'.
(6) He began seeing women other than his sisters, and women, moreover, who were at the forefront of social and educational reform - like Margaret Fuller, feminist and abolitionist, and Elizabeth Peabody, who founded the kindergarten movement in America.
(7) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
(8) These little colleges that were founded by abolitionists are often unaware of their origins - that they were integrated schools before the civil war."
(9) Abolitionists believe the UK should be proud of the stand it took back then to abandon capital punishment.
(10) From them it goes to the abolitionists and peace crusaders of the years before the Civil War, the anarchists and pacifists at the beginning of this century, the sit-down strikers of the 1930s and the conscientious objectors of two world wars.
(11) Trump called 19th-century activist, writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more”.
(12) Think of the abolitionists who struggled and died to see the end of slavery.
(13) The fact that only two of the nine justices used the opportunity to reviewthe death penalty – the first of its kind since 2008 – to question whether capital punishment was in itself constitutional is an indication of the hard work abolitionists still have to do in effecting a nationwide ban on the practice.
(14) QT : He dropped her off in Philadelphia and she's working for the abolitionists.
(15) Although he concluded with a call for unity, the president’s remarks were broadly focused on paying tribute to leaders of the abolitionist movement, such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
(16) Following his rescue, he became involved in the abolitionist movement and lectured on slavery in the north-east US.
(17) The French Socialists would like their abolitionist stance to be mirrored in Europe , namely in the country they see as closest in its attitude to prostitution: the UK.
(18) Sanders went on to quote the 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, saying: “Freedom doesn’t come without struggle.” Martin O'Malley (@MartinOMalley) #blacklivesmatter .
(19) One of the prime arguments used by abolitionists was that the massive costs of Maryland's death row were being carried by all of the state's taxpayers, when the overwhelming number of the inmates had come from just one county – Baltimore.
(20) The exhaustive notes (250 pages of them) are often considerably more informative, factually speaking, than Twain: he never mentions, for example, that his father-in-law was an abolitionist who served as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, helped Frederick Douglass to escape and became his friend.