quashing

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Verb

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quashing

  1. present participle and gerund of quash

Noun

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quashing (plural quashings)

  1. The action of quashing something.
    • 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times[1]:
      the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there

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