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What does quashed mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of quash
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Lisa recently quashed rumours she was set to marry George as she wouldn't want to swap her home in Essex for George's Hollywood Hills property.
Judge Sanderson agreed with him last week and quashed the subpoenas he had earlier authorized.
Any chance of a fightback was quickly quashed by Keighley's defence who plugged the gaps.
The prosecution accept that if the trial was unfair, the convictions were unsafe and should be quashed.
But while that triangular confrontation was stupendously dramatic, the ex-president left with a token fine which was quashed on appeal.
That same person goes free if proceedings are stayed, or when a trial court acquits or when, as in this case, a conviction is quashed on appeal.

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