ABROGATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they abrogate ... he / she / it abrogates

Past simple: abrogated

Past participle: abrogated

-ing form: abrogating

Sense 1

Meaning:

Revoke formally

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "abrogate" is one way to...):

abolish; get rid of (do away with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

abrogation (the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation)

abrogator (an authority or official empowered to abolish or annul or repeal)

Credits

Context examples:

In fact, many RhoGEFs were identified based on their transforming activity, which was abrogated upon disruption of their DH domain.

(DH Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Anti-human GITR MoAb TRX518 blocks the interaction of GITR, found on multiple types of T cells, with its ligand, thereby inducing both the activation of tumor-antigen-specific T effector cells, as well as abrogating the suppression induced by inappropriately activated T regulatory cells.