abrogating

The word “abrogating” has 4 syllables: a-bro-ga-ting

It's pronounced as /ˈæbrəˌɡeɪtɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for abrogating?

In the thesaurus, “abrogating” has 91 synonyms and 30 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for abrogating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for abrogating

  • abating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • adverse
  • against
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • antagonistic
  • anti
  • avoiding
  • balky
  • banning
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • colorless
  • con
  • contrary
  • contravening
  • counteractive
  • countermanding
  • cynical
  • denying
  • detrimental
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • disavowing
  • dismissing
  • dissentient
  • dissenting
  • dissolving
  • doing away with
  • dropping
  • eliminating
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • forbidding
  • gainsaying
  • gloomy
  • impugning
  • invalidating
  • jaundiced
  • liquidating
  • naysaying
  • negating
  • neutralizing
  • nugatory
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • opposing
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • pessimistic
  • privative
  • prohibiting
  • quashing
  • recalling
  • recusant
  • refusing
  • rejecting
  • removed
  • removing
  • repealing
  • repugnant
  • rescinding
  • resisting
  • resistive
  • retracting
  • reversing
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • setting aside
  • striking down
  • suspending
  • throwing out
  • unaffirmative
  • unenthusiastic
  • unfavorable
  • uninterested
  • unwilling
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • weak
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

Antonyms for abrogating

  • allowing
  • approving
  • authorizing
  • clearing
  • commanding
  • decreeing
  • enacting
  • endorsing
  • establishing
  • favorable
  • formalizing
  • founding
  • good
  • indorsing
  • instituting
  • laying down
  • legalizing
  • legislating
  • legitimating
  • legitimizing
  • mandating
  • ordering
  • passing
  • permitting
  • positive
  • prescribing
  • ratifying
  • sanctioning
  • validating
  • warranting

Meanings of abrogating

  • verb
    1. To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
    2. To put an end to; to do away with.
    3. To block a process or function.

Example Sentences

  • The government is considering abrogating certain outdated laws to modernize the legal system.
  • The company's board of directors is discussing the possibility of abrogating the merger agreement.
  • The court's decision on the case could have significant implications for abrogating individual rights.
  • The president's executive order aims at abrogating previous environmental regulations.
  • The treaty includes provisions for abrogating the agreement under specific circumstances.

On this page you'll find 121 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to abrogating, such as: abating, abolishing, aborting, adverse, against, allowing, annihilating.

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abating

  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abridging
  • abrogating
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • analeptic
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • assuaging
  • avoiding
  • bankrupting
  • banning
  • bereaving
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • ceasing
  • cheating
  • clipping
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crumbling
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declinatory
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrescent
  • deducting
  • deflating
  • defrauding
  • denting
  • denuding
  • depleting
  • depreciating
  • depriving
  • descending
  • desisting
  • diminishing
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discontinuing
  • discounting
  • disfurnishing
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • divesting
  • docking
  • doing away with
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • eliminating
  • encouraging
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • evaporating
  • expiring
  • fading away
  • falling
  • falling away
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • forbidding
  • freeing
  • giving out
  • health-giving
  • heart-warming
  • impoverishing
  • inspiriting
  • invalidating
  • invigorating
  • knocking down
  • knocking off
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • liquidating
  • losing momentum
  • lowering
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • narrowing
  • negating
  • nicking
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • palling
  • paring
  • passing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • prohibiting
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quashing
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • reassuring
  • recalling
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rejecting
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
  • removing
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • restoring
  • retracting
  • retrenching
  • reversing
  • revitalizing
  • revivifying
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • sagging
  • setting aside
  • settling
  • shortchanging
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slashing
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • softening
  • solacing
  • soothing
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • stripping
  • subsiding
  • subtracting
  • succoring
  • suspending
  • sustaining
  • taking off
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • tumbling
  • upholding
  • vacating
  • vanishing
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • waning
  • warming
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • whittling
  • winding up
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

abolishing

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • assassinating
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • bane
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • carnage
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • crashing
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • disintegrating
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disrupting
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • downfall
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • havoc
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • massacre
  • murder
  • negating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • striking down
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • suspending
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

aborting

  • abandoning
  • abrogating
  • annulling
  • barren
  • breaking off
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • countermanding
  • crying off
  • delivered
  • discontinuing
  • dropping
  • ending
  • giving up
  • halting
  • holding back
  • infertile
  • interrupting
  • invalidating
  • miscarrying
  • nonpregnant
  • nullifying
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • relinquishing
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • retracting
  • reversing
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • scrapping
  • scrubbing
  • stopping
  • surrendering
  • suspending
  • taking back
  • terminating
  • voiding
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

about-facing

  • abrogating
  • annulling
  • arching
  • arcing
  • backtracking
  • bending
  • bowing
  • breaking
  • circling
  • coiling
  • countermanding
  • crooking
  • curling
  • curving
  • cutting
  • deviating
  • hooking
  • looping
  • overturning
  • pivoting
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • reversing
  • reverting
  • revoking
  • rounding
  • sheering
  • skewing
  • slewing
  • sluing
  • spiraling
  • spiralling
  • straying
  • striking down
  • sweeping
  • swerving
  • switching
  • turning
  • twisting
  • veering
  • wandering
  • wavering
  • weaving
  • wheeling
  • winding
  • yawing
  • zagging
  • zigging
  • zigzagging

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