1 to abolish

2 to abandon

3 to abrogate

4 to discard

5 to depose

6 to oust

7 crippled

8 abandoned

9 waste

1 rubbish

2 waste material

3 useless person

1 nonsense

2 rubbish

3 superfluous words

4 You don't say!

5 No kidding! (gently sarcastic)

1 to abandon (cultivated fields)

2 no longer cultivated

3 to lie waste

4 wasted

5 to neglect (one's work or study)

1 decadent

2 dispirited

3 depressed

4 dejected

1 not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers

1 to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case

1 to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished

1 lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face

2 to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk

1 lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined

2 a great sage has died (idiom)