{
    "term": "abolish",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "abolish",
            "heSheIt": "abolishes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "abolished",
        "pastParticiple": "abolished",
        "ingForm": "abolishing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to officially end a law, a system or an institution",
            "sensetop": "abolish something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This tax should be abolished."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She campaigned to abolish the death penalty altogether."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They called on the government to abolish tuition fees entirely."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His government has abolished import quotas and slashed tariffs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Over the past six years we have abolished a whole range of direct taxes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Slavery was abolished in the US in 1865."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They outlined the arguments for abolishing the monarchy."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["altogether", "completely", "entirely"],
                "verb + abolish": ["seek to", "decide to", "vote to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈbɒlɪʃ/",
                "audio": "ab/abolish/abolish__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈbɒlɪʃɪz/",
                "audio": "ab/abolish/abolishes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈbɒlɪʃt/",
                "audio": "ab/abolish/abolished__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈbɒlɪʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ab/abolish/abolishing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈbɑːlɪʃ/",
                "audio": "ab/abolish/abolish__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈbɑːlɪʃɪz/",
                "audio": "ab/abolish/abolishes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈbɑːlɪʃt/",
                "audio": "ab/abolish/abolished__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈbɑːlɪʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ab/abolish/abolishing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French aboliss-, lengthened stem of abolir, from Latin abolere ‘destroy’."
}