Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Abolish

Abolish ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[French abolir, Latin abolere, aboletum; ab + olere to grow. Compare Finish.]

1.
To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.
2.
To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic]
And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. — Spenser
His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. — Tennyson