repeal

verb (used with object)

1. to revoke or withdraw formally or officially: to repeal a grant.
2. to revoke or annul (a law, tax, duty, etc.) by express legislative enactment; abrogate.

noun

3. the act of repealing; revocation; abrogation.

verb (tr)

1. to annul or rescind officially (something previously ordered); revokethese laws were repealed
2. obsolete to call back (a person) from exile

noun

3. an instance or the process of repealing; annulment

noun the Repeal

1. (esp in the 19th century) the proposed dissolution of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland

v.

late 14c., from Anglo-French repeler, Old French rapeler “call back, call in, call after, revoke” (Modern French rappeler), from re- “back” (see re-) + apeler “to call” (see appeal (v.)). Related: Repealed; repealing.

n.

late 15c., from repeal (v.), or from Anglo-French repel, Old French rapel (Modern French rappel) “a recall appeal,” back-formation from rapeler.