What is another word for Repealed?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪpˈiːld] (IPA)

Repealed is a commonly used legal term that means to abolish or revoke a law, regulation, or agreement. Synonyms for repealed include overturned, annulled, rescinded, abrogated, revoked, cancelled, and invalidated. Overturned indicates the reversal of a previous decision, whereas annulled suggests that a law or agreement was voided from the beginning. Rescinded denotes the cancellation of an agreement or approval, while abrogated signifies the annulment or cancellation of a law. Revoked and cancelled both mean to withdraw or invalidate a previous decision, and invalidated suggests that a law or agreement is null and void. Overall, these synonyms are all useful in conveying the idea of annulling a law or agreement.

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Usage examples for Repealed

Laws were proclaimed to-day and Repealed to-morrow, or even broken by the very officials engaged in administering them.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Silas has seen him look through it to decide questions in science, theology, law, and history, and tear leaves out of it with which to start his fire; and while a cunning man would have guessed that Mr. Whittle made up his authority, instead of finding it in the book, Silas Davy, who is not cunning, believes that it is a repository of secrets of every kind, although it is really a treatise on a law which has been Repealed many years.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
This law, having no penalty to enforce it, was found to be violated in many instances, as it was ascertained to be a fact that Dr. McFarland was constantly receiving patients under the old law of 1851, which this law had nominally Repealed.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard

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