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ab·ro·gate

 (ăb′rə-gāt′)
tr.v. ab·ro·gat·ed, ab·ro·gat·ing, ab·ro·gates
To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority: "Our existing Aboriginal and treaty rights were now part of the supreme law of the land, and could not be abrogated or denied by any government" (Matthew Coon Come).
[Latin abrogāre, abrogāt- : ab-, away; see ab-1 + rogāre, to ask; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]
ab′ro·ga′tion n.
ab′ro·ga′tive adj.
ab′ro·ga′tor n.
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abrogative

(ˈæbrəˌɡeɪtɪv)
adj
formal having the property of abrogating
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