derogar

Spanish

Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin dērogāre.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /deɾoˈɡaɾ/ [d̪e.ɾoˈɣ̞aɾ]
    • Rhymes: -aɾ
    • Syllabification: de‧ro‧gar

    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 decisión ― overturn the decision
      derogar la norma ― repeal the rule
      derogar la ley ― abolish the law
      derogar la reforma ― revoke the reform
      derogar las negociaciones ― annul 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[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2017:
        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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