Quashing

To put down or suppress forcibly and completely.

Quashing. Take the quiz to find out. In law a motion to quash asks the judge for an order setting aside or nullifying an action such as quashing service of a summons when the wrong person was served. Hawley alleged that facebook and twitter s active suppression of the new york post story appears to constitute contributions under federal law and that the biden campaign derives extraordinary value from quashing a story that would link the former vice president to ukrainian oligarchs. To annul or set aside.

46 synonyms of quashing from the merriam webster thesaurus plus 88 related words definitions and antonyms. Unreasonable obviously irregular or oppressive subpoenas injunctions indictments and orders can be quashed by a court. The national green tribunal tuesday issued notice to the centre and the cpcb on a plea seeking quashing of a notification on groundwater extraction on the grounds that its commercial use was. An anxiety disorder in which patients are driven to repeat the same act such as washing their hands over and over again usually for many hours.

Find another word for quashing. Anxiety caused by a dread of environmental perils especially climate change. Early colonial attempts at understanding or quashing these prophetic movements seem in retrospect to have been somewhat haphazard. The doing away with something by formal action.

For example if jurors have been selected improperly the court can quash the proceedings. Quashing in english many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. History and etymology for quash verb 1 middle english quashen to smash from anglo french quasser casser from latin quassare to shake violently shatter frequentative of quatere to shake verb 2.