Word for Today - Oct. 18, 2009

abrogate - AB-row-GATE - to abolish, repeal, do away with

Example: "Abolitionist John Brown is honored in the South today for his fight to abrogate slavery; on October 16, 1859, with 21 men he went to Harper's Ferry to capture arms for slaves to fight for their freedom, was captured on the 18th & hanged on Dec. 2nd.