Definitions for abrogate

abrogate ab·ro·gate

Spelling: [ab-ruh-geyt]
IPA: /ˈæb rəˌgeɪt/

Abrogate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 288 anagrams from letters in abrogate (aabegort).

Definitions for abrogate

verb (used with object)

  1. to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal:
  2. to put aside; put an end to.

Origin of abrogate

1520-30; Latin abrogātus repealed (past participle of abrogāre). See ab-, rogation, -ate

Examples for abrogate

It is now proposed to abrogate it on certain days and at certain places.

To abrogate one iota of his power was to abrogate the whole.

As not having imposed, she cannot abrogate, suspend, or modify them.

No one can invalidate his sentence; he can abrogate those of all others.

He cannot abrogate a law both divine and natural, and I doubt——'

You were, as I have hinted, the first to abrogate its use in my favour.

“The government cannot just abrogate contracts,” Larry Summers said yesterday.

Yet it does not appear that any legislator attempted to abrogate servitude.

This is a common enough doctrine in Europe and a difficult one to abrogate.

They make no laws, they consent to none, they abrogate none.

Word Value for abrogate
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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