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Outlaw boils bananas in wood (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

abolish

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'outlaw' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'boils bananas in wood' is the wordplay.
'bananas' indicates an anagram (informal term for mad).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'wood' becomes 'ah' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'boils' anagrammed gives 'bolis'.
'bolis' placed within 'ah' is 'ABOLISH'.

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(Other definitions for abolish that I've seen before include "delete" , "Put an end to, cancel" , "Formally do away with" , "Put an end to, as with slavery" , "Annul - expunge" .)

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