abolire

v. abolish, cancel; do away with, get rid of; put down

v. abolish, cancel, revoke, annul

(desfiinţare) = abolition
(desfiinţare) = abolishment

= overturn, abolish.
Ex: However, any refinement involves greater human intervention, and this in turn can easily overturn the arguments in favour of subject indexes based upon titles.
Ex: Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.
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* abolir la segregación racial = desegregate.