moot out

[Marina Lee]

Пожалуйста, помогите перевести.

Выражение встречается в следующем контексте:
lawsuit was mooted out

Заранее спасибо

[nsbio]

From OED: значение №4
4. U.S. To render (a question, matter, etc.) irrelevant or of no practical significance.

1980 Washington Post 1 Feb. 33/4 As the day wore on the matter seemed likely to be mooted by the cleverness of the crows that wheeled and cawed over the farm. 1987 B. A. GARNER Dict. Mod. Legal Usage 365/1 The settlement did not moot the jurisdictional question. 1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 19 Jan. 3/1 His characterizations of Mr. Gorbachev..and Mr. Yeltsin..get it exactly right. His analysis of both men, while mooted now in the case of Mr. Gorbachev, should be read by..George Bush.

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