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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In law, to kill; crush or destroy; quash.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Law), rare To destroy; to defeat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, law To destroy or defeat.

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