make void

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To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

To make void; to annul; to abrogate; applied chiefly and appropriately to establish laws, contracts, rites, customs and institutions; as to abolish laws by a repeal, actual or virtual.

From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Helper, Hinton Rowan

Now that our sky is blazing with the midday sun, shall we betray and make void those early hopes?

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)

They will continue to do so more and more, if pulpit and press are ignorant or cowardly, and sworn officers of the law make void the law.

From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert)

To disclose the position of his victim now would have been not only to make void his future plans, but to place his own fate at Solomon's mercy.

From Bred in the Bone by Payn, James