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

1. transitive verb. To recall; to summon again, as persons.
2. transitive 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.
3. transitive verb. To suppress; to repel.
4. noun. Recall, as from exile.
5. noun. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
6. noun. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

   Synonyms: abrogation, annulment

7. verb. cancel officially

   "He revoked the ban on smoking"

   "lift an embargo"

   Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate

Synonyms

abrogation, annulment, annul, countermand, lift, overturn, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in repeal:

leaper, pealer, releap, repale

Common word forms

repeals, repealed, repealer, repealing, repealable, repealless

Words from these letters

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