abolishes
Sayuh-BOL-ish-izUS/əˈbɑl.ɪʃ.ɪz/UK/əˈbɒlɪʃɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of abolish.
The proposed amendment abolishes the requirement for an annual fee.
Each new administration abolishes some of its predecessor's regulations.
Note
The ending here is -es rather than a bare -s, as with other verbs ending in -sh, and it adds a syllable to the word. Its subjects are usually laws, bodies or officials, because the living sense is ending a system, custom or practice. The older use for destroying a physical thing is archaic, so a flood that abolishes a village reads as deliberately old-fashioned.
abolishes 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 → abolishes: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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