- to revoke or withdraw formally or officially: to repeal a grant.
- to revoke or annul (a law, tax, duty, etc.) by express legislative enactment; abrogate.
- the act of repealing; revocation; abrogation.
- to annul or rescind officially (something previously ordered); revoke
- to call back (a person) from exile
- an instance or the process of repealing; annulment
- (esp in the 19th century) the proposed dissolution of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland