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quash

/kwɒʃ/US/kwɑʃ/

quash verb: to defeat decisively, to suppress.

Verb

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.
    • Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.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]...
  2. (obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces.
    • 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
  3. To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
    • In the case of an appeal against conviction the Court shall, if they allow the appeal, quash the conviction.1968, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 2(2)”, in Criminal Appeal Act 1968^(Criminal Appeal Act 1968), page 2

quash meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

quash in Tamil

அகற்று, விலக்கு, செல்லுபடி அற்றதென விலக்கு, இல்லையாக்கு, ஒழித்தழி, ஒழித்துவிடு

quash in Urdu

بےاثر کرنا, دبا دینا, خارج کرنا, ختم کرنا, کچل دینا, منسوخ کرنا

quash in Bengali

বাতিল করা, দমন করা

quash in Malayalam

പൊടിക്കുക, ദുർബലപ്പെടുത്തുക, അടിച്ചമർത്തുക, അസാധുവാക്കുക, റദ്ദാക്കുക
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quash in Kannada
ಚಚ್ಚು, ಜಜ್ಜು, ದಮನಮಾಡು, ಅಡಗಿಸು

Forms of quash

third-person singular presentquashes
present participlequashing
past participlequashed
pastquashed

Past tense of quash: quashed

Origin of quash

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”).

Words formed from quash

Words that rhyme with quash

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Questions about quash

What does quash mean?
Quash means to defeat decisively, to suppress.
What is quash in Tamil?
Quash in Tamil is அகற்று, விலக்கு, செல்லுபடி அற்றதென விலக்கு. See Quash meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quash?
Quash is a verb.
How do you pronounce quash?
Quash is pronounced /kwɒʃ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of quash?
The past tense of quash is quashed.

Words near quash in the dictionary

  1. quas
  2. quasar
  3. quasarlike
  4. quasars
  5. quases
  6. quash
  7. quashable
  8. quashal
  9. quashed
  10. Quashee
  11. Quashees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quash (page history and authors); quash (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quash (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quash (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quash (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quash (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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