repeal

1. 1.

   cancel officially

   “He revoked the ban on smoking”

   “lift an embargo”

   “vacate a death sentence”

   Synonymsrevokeannulliftcountermandreverseoverturnrescindvacate

   Broadercancel

   Narrowerrenege

Other forms of repeal

plural

repeals·

past tense

repealed·

present participle

repealing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about repeal

What does repeal mean?

repeal means "the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repeal?

repeal has 2 syllables: re-peal. The stress falls on "peal". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈpil/.

What is another word for repeal?

Close synonyms include abrogation, annulment, revoke, annul, lift. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is repeal a common word?

repeal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with repeal?

3 words rhyme with repeal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.