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tr.v.   quashed, quash·ing, quash·es
To set aside or annul, especially by judicial action.


[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.]

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