Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

abrogate

/ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.08 in modern English

Syllables: ab-ro-gate
IPA: /ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.

Transitive verb

verb

To put an end to; to do away with.

Transitive verb

verb

To block a process or function.

Transitive verb

adj

Abrogated; abolished.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old."
"Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate."
"The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated."
"The rule known as the “year and a day rule” […] is abrogated for all purposes."
"Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵósder. Proto-Indo-European *preḱ-der. Proto-Italic *prokos Latin procus Latin procō Latin rogō Latin abrogō Latin abrogātusder. Middle English abrogat English abrogate First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation.

Origin

Source language: Middle English
First known use: First attested in 1526

Word Breakdown

Root: abrogat, abrogātus

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/
British English: /ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/

Usage

Inflected Forms

abrogates (present, singular) abrogating (participle, present) abrogated (participle, past) abrogated (past) abrogen (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

abrogable abrogative abrogator unabrogated

Phrases

competitively inhibit

Frequently Paired Words

abrogation legalize competitively inhibit

Synonyms

abolish annul countermand invalidate nullify overrule overturn quash repeal rescind retract reverse

Antonyms

establish fix promulgate

Questions

How do you pronounce abrogate?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/.
What does abrogate mean?: To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal.
Where does abrogate come from?: It is traced to Middle English. First known use: First attested in 1526.

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