advance verb [ I/T ] (MOVE FORWARD) âº to go or move something forward, or to develop or improve something: [ T ] Research has advanced our understanding of the virus. [ I ] Tonightâs winner advances to the semifinals.
repeal. 1) v. to annul an existing law, by passage of a repealing statute, or by public vote on a referendum. Repeal of U. S. Constitutional provisions require an amendment, as with the repeal of prohibition in which the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment. 2) n. the act of annulling a statute.
Twenty-first Amendment An article to the United States Constitution that repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and ended the period of Prohibition in 1933. Eighteenth Amendment An article to the United States Constitution that prohibited commercial alcohol sales and consumption beginning in 1920.