abolished
- 1Simple past and past participle of abolish.
Parliament abolished the duty after years of public protest.
The practice had been abolished decades before anyone thought to question it.
Note
One regular -ed form does double duty: the simple past (Parliament abolished the tax) and the participle behind perfect and passive verbs (has abolished, was abolished). Its objects are usually laws, systems, institutions, customs or practices, things that exist by agreement. An older use, now archaic, let it destroy physical objects too. In an old text, a city or building that is abolished has been wiped out, not formally ended.
abolished is a form of abolish
abolish, verb: To formally put an end to a law, system, institution, custom, or practice. Full entry
- Forms
- abolishabolishes he/she/itabolishing -ing formabolished past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- abolish → abolished: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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