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Abrogate
verb/ab-roh-gate/
repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement).
In contextThe policy was abrogated after the new evidence came to light.
Remember it
ab- (away) + rogare (propose a law): to abrogate is to take a law away — cancel it officially.
Use it well
Legal, formal register; its objects are laws, treaties and agreements — never people or plans.