quash a conviction
C1CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
For an appeal court to set aside a conviction so that it no longer stands.
The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction after fresh evidence rendered it unsafe.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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