Synonyms of the word

quash

• v. To defeat forcibly.
• v. To crush or dash to pieces.
• v. (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

annul

• v. (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
• v. (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

avoid

• v. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
• v. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
• v. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

cancel

• v. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
• v. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
• v. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
• v. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction,…
• v. (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
• v. (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
• v. (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
• v. (slang) To kill.
• n. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
• n. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
• n. (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

invalidate

• v. To make invalid. Especially applied to contract law.

nullify

• v. (transitive, law) to make legally invalid.
• v. to prevent from happening.

oppress

• v. (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
• v. (transitive) To keep down by force.
• v. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy.

reduce

• v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
• v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
• v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
• v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
• v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

repress

• v. To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
• v. Hence, to check; to keep back.
• v. To press again.
• n. A record pressed again; a repressing.

subdue

• v. To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
• v. To bring (a country) under control by force.

subjugate

• v. To forcibly impose obedience or servitude.

suppress

• v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
• v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
• v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
• v. To prevent publication.
• v. To stop a flow or stream.
• v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
• v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
• v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

void

• adj. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
• adj. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
• adj. Being without; destitute; devoid.
• adj. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
• adj. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
• adj. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
• adj. (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
• n. An empty space; a vacuum.
• n. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
• n. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
• n. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
• v. (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
• v. (transitive, medicine) To empty.
• v. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
• n. (now rare, historical) A voidee.