Dictionary Entry
repeal
repeal is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To recall; to summon again, as persons. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To recall; to summon again, as persons.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To suppress; to repel.
- 4noun
Recall, as from exile.
- 5noun
Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
- 6noun
the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
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- 7verb
cancel officially
"He revoked the ban on smoking"
"lift an embargo"
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