Definition of "quashing" []

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

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• "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."