repeal something if a government or other group or person with authority repeals a law, that law no longer has any legal force废除，撤销，废止（法规）- The committee does not have the power to repeal the ban.委员会无权取消禁令。
Topics Politicsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryRepeal is used with these nouns as the object: See full entry Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French repeler, from Old French re- (expressing reversal) + apeler ‘to call, appeal’.