quash
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English quaschen, quasshen, cwessen, quassen, from Old French quasser, from Latin quassāre, present active infinitive of quassō, under the influence of cassō (“I annul”), from Latin quatiō (“I shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (“to shake”) (same root for the English words: pasta, paste, pastiche, pastry). Cognate with Spanish quejar (“to complain”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwɒʃ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /kwɔʃ/
- (cot–caught merger) 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 decisively, to suppress.
- The army quashed the rebellion.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon):
- Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
- 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 269:
- Anne that she had been perfectly right in her proceedings, since, by quashing all idle hopes, both parties would see the necessity of conquering their foolish passion.
- 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]:
- the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there
- (obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces.
- 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands
- The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.
- 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands
- (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to defeat forcibly
to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
Anagrams[edit]
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɒʃ
- Rhymes:English/ɒʃ/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with obsolete senses
- en:Law