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quash

[ kwosh ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue:

    to quash a rebellion.

    Synonyms: , , ,

  2. to make void, annul, or set aside (a law, indictment, decision, etc.).


quash

/ °ì·Éɒʃ /

verb

  1. to subdue forcefully and completely; put down; suppress
  2. to annul or make void (a law, decision, etc)
  3. to reject (an indictment, writ, etc) as invalid
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quash1

1300–50; Middle English quashen to smash, break, overcome, suppress < Old French quasser, in part < Latin ±ç³Ü²¹²õ²õÄå°ù±ð to shake (frequentative of quatere to shake; concussion ); in part < Late Latin ³¦²¹²õ²õÄå°ù±ð to annul, derivative of Latin cassus empty, void
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quash1

C14: from Old French quasser, from Latin ±ç³Ü²¹²õ²õÄå°ù±ð to shake
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There are some business owners and community leaders who don’t agree with the approach that city officials are taking to quash crime, Langer said.

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Clients have told him of officers allowing youths to fight to quash a beef, sometimes even telling other youths when and where a fight would happen.

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Introducing the law change in 2014, the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government argued it would stop compensation going to people who only had their conviction quashed on a technicality, and therefore might be guilty.

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France secured the Six Nations championship with a flourish - and quashed England's hopes - by ultimately overpowering a dogged Scotland in Paris.

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The sentence has been condemned by human rights groups, including Amnesty International, who described it as "a shocking attack on Ratu Thalisa's freedom of expression" and called for it to be quashed.

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