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Definition of "quashing" []

  • Present participle of quash. (verb)
  • The action of quashing something. (noun)

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Use "quashing" in a sentence
  • "In a rebuke of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal bank regulator erred in quashing efforts by New York state to combat the kind of predatory mortgage lending that triggered the nation's financial crisis."
  • "It is now more than obvious that some religious factions have a vested interest in quashing self expression."
  • "My inexplicably unpopular "campaign" to remove Sinner Winner man's right to free megaphone speech hasn't yet succeeded in quashing his freedom."
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