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Definition of abolished : of Abolish

Synonyms:

dissolved, negated, disaffirmed, undone, disclaimed, eradicated, canceled, nullified, destroyed, withdrew, abnegated, eliminated, deleted, denied, vetoed, repudiated, divorced, withdrawn, invalidated, refuted, effaced, rejected, extinguished, annulled, dismissed, disavowed, retracted, revoked, obliterated, neutralized, undid

dismantled, razed, leveled, extirpated, annihilated, mowed down, knocked down, exterminated, desolated, demolished, torn down, smashed, pulverized, wrecked, bulldozed, devastated, flattened, disintegrated, ripped to shreds, vaporized, tore down, decimated, atomized, laid waste

Usage examples:

• Until 1867 the death of a sovereign always wrought a dissolution of Parliament; but this rule, which depended more on ancient theory than on modern convenience, was abolished by the Reform Act of that year. - "The Government of England (Vol. I)", A. Lawrence Lowell.
• Prisons should be abolished and criminals never punished. - "Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy", Otto Heller.
• Class distinctions are being abolished. - "Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890", Octavius Brooks Frothingham.