To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.

To end, destroy. In the 1960â€(tm)s, abolitionists pushed to end the death penalty. They argued that it was violating the Eighth Amendment and therefore unconstitutional. With the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 the abolition movement was reborn.

to put and end to, or do away with.

To abolish a predicate is to retract all the predicate's clauses and to remove all information about it from the Prolog system, to make it as if that predicate had never existed.