Definitions

to control an emotion, activity, or situation to prevent it from becoming too powerful:

to treat someone or something badly, or to defeat him, her, or it:

to succeed in sleeping:

greater than the usual level or amount:

to interrupt a conversation in order to say something:

to gradually start to be noticeable:

If a judge or court sets aside a previous decision or judgment, they state that it does not now have any legal effect, usually because they consider it to have been wrong: