All watergate synonyms

verb watergate

• cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
• nullify — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
• annul — If an election or a contract is annulled, it is declared invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
• clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
• invalidate — to render invalid; discredit.
• overrule — to rule against or disallow the arguments of (a person): The senator was overruled by the committee chairman.
• repeal — to revoke or withdraw formally or officially: to repeal a grant.
• rescind — to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal.
• reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
• revoke — to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
• set aside — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
• squelch — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
• undo — to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done: Murder once done can never be undone.
• vacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• void — Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
• abrogate — If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it.
• discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
• dissolve — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
• overthrow — to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
• vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
• black out — If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
• bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
• hush up — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
• put the lid on — to be the final blow to
• shut down — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.