Illustration: At the entrance to a municipal riverside footbridge, workers dismantle an old toll booth and load its payment drawer and detached barrier arm onto a removal truck. The booth’s mounting bolts lie beside an empty foundation, making the removal permanent.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

撤てっ廃ぱい

teppai

to abolish, to repeal

Example sentences

  1. こうした古ふるい規則きそくは撤廃てっぱいしなければなりません。

    We must do away with these old rules.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 日本にっぽんが不公平ふこうへいな関税かんぜいを撤廃てっぱいしなければ、米国べいこくは制裁措置せいさいそちをとるだろう。

    Unless Japan eliminates its unfair tariffs, the U.S. will impose sanctions.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. そして、治外法権ちがいほうけん撤廃てっぱいに強硬きょうこうに反対はんたいしていた。

    And they were vehemently opposed to the abolition of the extraterritorial rights.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 撤廃

  • 撤remove; withdrawOnテツ
  • 廃abolish; obsoleteOnハイKunすたれる・すたる

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