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quash

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Etymology

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    From Middle English quaschen , quasshen , cwessen , quassen , from Old French quasser , from Latin quassāre , under the influence of cassō ("to annul"), from Latin quatiō ("to shake") Cognate with Dutch kwetsen ("to hurt, injure"), German quetschen ("to crush, squash"), Spanish quejar ("to complain").

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    Verb

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    quash (third-person singular simple present quashes , present participle quashing , simple past and past participle quashed )

    1. To defeat decisively, to suppress.
      The army quashed the rebellion.
      • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, "(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)", in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. [...], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, [...], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
        Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
      • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. [...], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, [...], published 1842, →OCLC, 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.
      • 1976 December 25, Robert Chesley, "New York's "Nightingale" Does No Justice to Williams' Play", in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 16:
        In an early scene with her father, Alma is shown rebelling against the staid, petty and occasionally vicious life of Glorious Hill, Mississippi; her father quashes her cruelly, but it is established that Alma has it in her to defy convention.
    2. (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.
    3. (law ) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
      • 1968, Parliament of the United Kingdom, "Section 2(2)", in Criminal Appeal Act 1968‎s:Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , page 2:
        In the case of an appeal against conviction the Court shall, if they allow the appeal, quash the conviction.

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    Translations

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    to defeat forcibly
    to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)
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