quash
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French quasser, from Latin quassāre, present active infinitive of quassō, under the influence of cassō (“I annul”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwɒʃ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kwɑʃ/
- Rhymes: -ɒʃ
Verb[edit]
quash (third-person singular simple present quashes, present participle quashing, simple past and past participle quashed)
- To defeat forcibly.
- The army quashed the rebellion.
- Barrow
- Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
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2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times[1]:
- What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
- To crush or dash to pieces.
- Waller
- The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.
- Waller
- (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
Translations[edit]
to defeat forcibly
to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)
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