quash

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The third strike for many on the left was the attempt by the Obama Justice Department to quash -- in another echo of Bush policy -- a lawsuit challenging the government's rendition and warrantless wiretapping programs.

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  1. transitive verb To set aside or annul, especially by judicial action.
  2. transitive verb To put down or suppress forcibly and completely: quash a rebellion.

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  • At least one city council member has accused the local and federal police of trying to quash or suppress legal protests. —  jobsanger
  • Morgan will tell you that she is "not legal counsel" but she'll tell you what she would do if she were in your situation, she'll give you some statistics about how motions to quash are almost never granted, and then she'll tell you that whoever suggested your motion to quash is an idiot (I don't think she knew that was my dad). —  p2pnet news
  • Time will tell whether a motion to quash will be necessary. —  Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
  • Fire them all, hire the bus drivers who make 12$ an hour running the yellow buses that they tried to quash, and we'll be back to normal. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • The University called it unduly burdensome, saying that the RIAA's request for "information ... sufficient to identify the alleged infringers of copyrighted sound recordings" was unreasonable. motion to quash, the Oregon State Attorney General's Office accused the RIAA of trying to force the school to "create discoverable material to assist Plaintiffs in their litigation rather than merely disclose existing documents." —  doggdot.us
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  1. Middle English quassen, from Old French casser, quasser, from Medieval Latin quassāre, alteration (influenced by quassāre, to shatter) of cassāre, from Latin cassus, empty, void; see kes- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English quashen, from Old French quasser, from Medieval Latin quassāre, to shatter, from Latin; see squash2.

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  1. from Middle English quashen, quasehen, quassen, quessen, from Old French quasser, casser, quassier, quesser, kaisser, break in pieces, bruise, shatter, maltreat, destroy, French casser, break, shatter, from Latin quassare, shake or toss violently, shatter, fig. shatter, impair, weaken, freq. of quatere, past participle quassus, shake, shatter, break in pieces; whence also ult. English concuss, discuss, percuss, rescue. In the fig. sense this verb (Latin quassare) merges with F. casser, annul: see quash.
  2. from Middle English *quashen, from Old French quasser, properly casser, annihilate, annul, French casser, annul, from Late Latin cassare, annihilate, destroy, annul, from Latin cassus, empty, hollow, fig. empty, vain, useless, futile, null: see cass, cash, cassation, cashier, etc.
  3. Perhaps so called with reference to its being easily broken; from quash, v. Squash is of American Indian origin.
 

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