repeal
verb/rɪˈpiːl/
/rɪˈpiːl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they repeal | /rɪˈpiːl/ /rɪˈpiːl/ |
| he / she / it repeals | /rɪˈpiːlz/ /rɪˈpiːlz/ |
| past simple repealed | /rɪˈpiːld/ /rɪˈpiːld/ |
| past participle repealed | /rɪˈpiːld/ /rɪˈpiːld/ |
| -ing form repealing | /rɪˈpiːlɪŋ/ /rɪˈpiːlɪŋ/ |
- repeal something if a government or other group or person with authority repeals a law, that law no longer has any legal force
- The committee does not have the power to repeal the ban.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRepeal is used with these nouns as the object:- act
- amendment
- law
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French repeler, from Old French re- (expressing reversal) + apeler ‘to call, appeal’.
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