aboleo

Meaning

  1. (conjugation-2) to retard, check the growth of
  2. (conjugation-2) to destroy, efface, terminate
  3. (conjugation-2, intransitive) to die, decay
  4. (conjugation-2) to abolish

Opposite of
ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor
Pronounced as (IPA)
[aˈbɔ.ɫe.oː]
Etymology

Probably from ab- (“from, away from”) + Proto-Italic *oleō (“to wipe out, destroy”, causative of *olō), ultimate from Proto-Indo-European *h₃elh₁-. See also Ancient Greek ἀπόλλυμι (apóllumi, “destroy utterly”).

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