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Webster 1913 Edition
Quash
Quash
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Quashed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quashing
.] [OF. ]
quasser
, F. casser
, fr. L. cassare
to annihilate, annul, fr. cassus
empty, vain, of uncertain origin. The word has been confused with L. quassare
to shake, F. casser
to break, which is probably of different origin. Cf. Cashier
, Verb.
T.
(Law)
To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void;
as, to
. quash
an indictmentBlackstone.
Quash
,Verb.
T.
[OF.
quasser
, F. casser
, fr. L. quassare
to shake, shatter, shiver, v. intens. fr. quatere
, quassum
, to shake, shatter. Cf. Concussion
, Discuss
, Rescue
, and also Quash
to annul.] 1.
To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.
The whales
Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels,
Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.
Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels,
quashed
,Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.
Waller.
2.
To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely;
as, to
. quash
a rebellionContrition is apt to
quash
or allay all worldly grief. Barrow.
Quash
,Verb.
I.
To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quash
QUASH
,Verb.
T.
1.
Properly, to beat down or beat in pieces; to crush.The whales against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quash'd.
2.
To crush; to subdue; as, to quash a rebellion.3.
In law, to abate, annul, overthrow or make void; as, to quash an indictment. He pays judgment of the writ or declaration that the same may be quashed.QUASH
,Verb.
I.
QUASH
,Noun.
Definition 2024
quash
quash
English
Verb
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.
- 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:
- 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
to defeat forcibly
to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)