Crossword-Solution: REPEAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Repeal | v. t. | To recall; to summon again, as persons. |
| Repeal | v. t. | To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law. |
| Repeal | v. t. | To suppress; to repel. |
| Repeal | n. | Recall, as from exile. |
| Repeal | n. | Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REPEAL | anagram | LAPEER, LEAPER, PEALER, PEARLE, RELEAP, REPALE |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with REPEAL (5)
Whence _Adam_ soon repeal’d The doubts that in his heart arose: and now Led on, yet sinless, with desire to know What neerer might concern him, how this World Of Heav’n and Earth conspicuous first began, When, and whereof created, for what cause, What within _Eden_ or without was done Before his memorie, as one whose drouth Yet scarce allay’d still eyes the current streame, Whose liquid murmur heard new thirst excites, Proceeded thus to ask his Heav’nly Guest.
The admission of California as a free State was regarded by Calhoun as fatal to the balance between the free and the slave States, and thereafter a fierce agitation sprang up for the recovery of this loss of balance, and ultimately for Southern preponderance, which resulted in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska war, and the civil war.
Repeal describes the act by which the legislature of a state sets aside a law which it had previously enacted.
The following year a Democrat introduced a bill to repeal the measure, but already public sentiment had changed and he was laughed down.
The two prospectuses alone, laid side by side, would indicate the march of luxury and the repeal of the paper duty.
Quotes with REPEAL (3)
It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bells Put out their tongues, for noon. It was not frost, for on my flesh I felt siroccos crawl, Nor fire, for just my marble feet Could keep a chancel cool. And yet it tasted like them all; The figures I have seen Set orderly, for burial, Reminded me of mine, As if my life were shaven And fitted to a frame, And could not breathe without a key; And I was like midnight, some, When everyth…
ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?... For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? …At the begin…
The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads to demands to do something about it. A political coalition forms consisting of sincere, high-minded reformers and equally sincere interested parties. The incompatible objectives of the members of the coalition (e.g., low prices to consumers and high prices to producers) are glossed over by fine rhetoric about “the public intere…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 125 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).