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单词 abrogate
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Definition of abrogate in English:

abrogate

verb ˈabrəɡeɪtˈæbrəˌɡeɪt
[with object]formal
  • 1Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement)

    a proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We do not approve, generally, of plural marriages - the basis of our disapproval being that they abrogate the rights of women and especially of young girls.
    • Congress initially passed legislation abrogating the agreement, then passed the Presidential Records Act to ensure that no similar agreements were made in the future.
    • If a regime abrogated the rights to life, liberty, and property, its subjects could overthrow it and choose a new one.
    • In 1975, Moscow decided to abrogate this agreement.
    • It is true that the Employees Liability Act abrogated that right, but at the same time it gave a right for the employer to proceed against the employee's insurer if there was one.
    • It is an established rule in English-based common law countries that statutes will not be interpreted as abrogating fundamental rights and freedoms unless clearly stated.
    • A government that can't fight terrorism without abrogating the rights of law-abiding citizens has no right to exist.
    • It was the first time in Canadian legislative history that the national constitution had been amended to abrogate entrenched rights.
    • Section 1 of the Suicide Act 1961 abrogated the rule that made suicide criminal.
    • In the absence of a clear express intent to abrogate rights and obligations - rights of the highest importance to the individual - those rights remain in force.
    • Accordingly, it is not within the competence of the Rules Committee, to abrogate the common law.
    • The employees submitted that the Premier Plan and the associated trust could not be separated and the merger could not lawfully abrogate the trust rights to which they were entitled.
    • In the course of a long conversation, the governor's longtime chief strategist agreed that Davis had abrogated our agreement.
    • This section abrogates the common law principle, historically enshrined in the Judges' Rules, that only a defendant's voluntary statements can be relied on in a criminal trial.
    • His bankruptcy or winding-up usually abrogates the agreement, and may restore to the bank its right to combine the accounts without notice.
    • On returning to Madagascar, both sides abrogated the agreement.
    • The more I ponder these simple points the more it seems likely that there will either be gigantic loopholes or the GMC will be forced to break its promise and abrogate the rights of retired doctors.
    • In 1948, the Soviets, in an attempt to abrogate agreements for Four-Power control of the city, blockaded Berlin.
    • Those regulations could disappear without abrogating the property rights of the bookseller.
    • In the late 1820s Georgia passed legislation abolishing tribal governments and abrogating the civil rights of Indians.
    Synonyms
    repudiate, revoke, repeal, rescind, overturn, overrule, override, do away with, annul, cancel, break off, invalidate, nullify, void, negate, dissolve, countermand, veto, declare null and void, discontinue
    renege on, go back on, backtrack on, reverse, retract, remove, withdraw, abolish, put an end to, get rid of, suspend, end, stop, quash, scrap
    Law disaffirm, avoid, vacate, vitiate
    informal axe, ditch, dump, chop, give something the chop, knock something on the head
    rare deracinate
  • 2Evade (a responsibility or duty)

    we believe the board is abrogating its responsibilities to its shareholders
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They have abrogated their duty to the country.
    • Whatever the reason, the government has obligations under international law that it cannot abrogate.
    • Our county, parish and town councillors all need to see this if they do not wish to abrogate their duty to us, their constituents.
    • Since 1991, the government has abrogated this responsibility.
    • Many are abrogating those responsibilities for ideological reasons that have nothing to do with our well-being.
    • This government has abrogated its responsibility to safeguard the most vulnerable in society.
    • Not reporting the expected effect of such an approach on costs abrogates our responsibility to the community.
    • They also used this employment instrument to abrogate any responsibility for wrongdoings against employees.
    • The mainstream media have abrogated their responsibility to deal with the facts.
    • Is there no concept of duty that investments banks won't abrogate for profit?

Usage

The verbs abrogate and arrogate are quite different in meaning. While abrogate means ‘repeal (a law),’ arrogate means ‘take or claim (something) for oneself without justification,’ often in the structure arrogate something to oneself, as in the emergency committee arrogated to itself whatever powers it chose

Derivatives

  • abrogator

  • noun
    formal
    • The effective stimulation of the G2 / M transition by G2 block abrogators and continued processing of DNA by endoreplication and delayed movement from S to G2 may be a condition which compromises cells for subsequent damage.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The company's core technologies include drugs that target the G2 checkpoint and a screening system to find selective abrogators of the G2 checkpoint.
      • You can read all about the abrogators and the abrogated in this article.
      • It illustrates the potential of G 2 checkpoint abrogators to preferentially sensitize p53-mutated, treatment resistant tumor cells for genotoxic treatment.
      • Interactions between the checkpoint abrogator UCN - 01 and several pharmacological inhibitors of the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase / MAPK pathway have been examined in a variety of human leukemia cell lines.

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin abrogat- 'repealed', from the verb abrogare, from ab- 'away, from' + rogare 'propose a law'.

 
 

Definition of abrogate in US English:

abrogate

verbˈabrəˌɡātˈæbrəˌɡeɪt
[with object]formal
  • 1Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement)

    a proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is an established rule in English-based common law countries that statutes will not be interpreted as abrogating fundamental rights and freedoms unless clearly stated.
    • The more I ponder these simple points the more it seems likely that there will either be gigantic loopholes or the GMC will be forced to break its promise and abrogate the rights of retired doctors.
    • In the absence of a clear express intent to abrogate rights and obligations - rights of the highest importance to the individual - those rights remain in force.
    • In the late 1820s Georgia passed legislation abolishing tribal governments and abrogating the civil rights of Indians.
    • In the course of a long conversation, the governor's longtime chief strategist agreed that Davis had abrogated our agreement.
    • His bankruptcy or winding-up usually abrogates the agreement, and may restore to the bank its right to combine the accounts without notice.
    • It was the first time in Canadian legislative history that the national constitution had been amended to abrogate entrenched rights.
    • We do not approve, generally, of plural marriages - the basis of our disapproval being that they abrogate the rights of women and especially of young girls.
    • Congress initially passed legislation abrogating the agreement, then passed the Presidential Records Act to ensure that no similar agreements were made in the future.
    • In 1975, Moscow decided to abrogate this agreement.
    • A government that can't fight terrorism without abrogating the rights of law-abiding citizens has no right to exist.
    • The employees submitted that the Premier Plan and the associated trust could not be separated and the merger could not lawfully abrogate the trust rights to which they were entitled.
    • In 1948, the Soviets, in an attempt to abrogate agreements for Four-Power control of the city, blockaded Berlin.
    • It is true that the Employees Liability Act abrogated that right, but at the same time it gave a right for the employer to proceed against the employee's insurer if there was one.
    • Section 1 of the Suicide Act 1961 abrogated the rule that made suicide criminal.
    • If a regime abrogated the rights to life, liberty, and property, its subjects could overthrow it and choose a new one.
    • On returning to Madagascar, both sides abrogated the agreement.
    • Those regulations could disappear without abrogating the property rights of the bookseller.
    • This section abrogates the common law principle, historically enshrined in the Judges' Rules, that only a defendant's voluntary statements can be relied on in a criminal trial.
    • Accordingly, it is not within the competence of the Rules Committee, to abrogate the common law.
    Synonyms
    repudiate, revoke, repeal, rescind, overturn, overrule, override, do away with, annul, cancel, break off, invalidate, nullify, void, negate, dissolve, countermand, veto, declare null and void, discontinue
  • 2Evade (a responsibility or duty)

    we believe the board is abrogating its responsibilities to its shareholders
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Since 1991, the government has abrogated this responsibility.
    • This government has abrogated its responsibility to safeguard the most vulnerable in society.
    • Many are abrogating those responsibilities for ideological reasons that have nothing to do with our well-being.
    • Whatever the reason, the government has obligations under international law that it cannot abrogate.
    • They have abrogated their duty to the country.
    • They also used this employment instrument to abrogate any responsibility for wrongdoings against employees.
    • Our county, parish and town councillors all need to see this if they do not wish to abrogate their duty to us, their constituents.
    • The mainstream media have abrogated their responsibility to deal with the facts.
    • Is there no concept of duty that investments banks won't abrogate for profit?
    • Not reporting the expected effect of such an approach on costs abrogates our responsibility to the community.

Usage

The verbs abrogate and arrogate are quite different in meaning. While abrogate means ‘repeal (a law),’ arrogate means ‘take or claim (something) for oneself without justification,’ often in the structure arrogate something to oneself, as in the emergency committee arrogated to itself whatever powers it chose

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin abrogat- ‘repealed’, from the verb abrogare, from ab- ‘away, from’ + rogare ‘propose a law’.

 
 
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