meaning of repeal
1. To recall; to summon again, as persons.
2. 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.
3. To suppress; to repel.
4. Recall, as from exile.
5. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
6. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
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