derogar

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dērogāre.

Verb

derogar (first-person singular present derogo, first-person singular preterite derogué, past participle derogado)

  1. (law) to abolish, annul, repeal, overturn
    Synonym: abolir
    derogar la decisiónoverturn the decision
    derogar la normarepeal the rule
    derogar la leyabolish the law
    derogar la reformarevoke the reform
    derogar las negociacionesannul negotiations
    • 1897 May 26, Diario Oficial de El Salvador:
      se derogue el acuerdo en que se prohibe á los destiladores vender su aguardiente á mas de cuarenta centavos.
      The ruling to prohibit distillers from selling their brandy at more than forty centavos is annulled.
    • 2017 May 25, Javier Vivas Santana, “Asesinar al pueblo para imponer una dictadura”, in El Nacional:
      En consecuencia, el madurismo pretende asesinar al chavismo con una puñalada en el corazón de su pensamiento, al intentar derogar la Constitución y sustituirla por un adefesio jurídico que acabe con el protagonismo del pueblo en la toma de sus principales decisiones []
      Thus, Madurism hopes to kill off Chavism by stabbing it in the heart of its belief, trying to repeal the Constitution and replace it with a legal car crash that does away with the protagonism of the people in its main decision-making.

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