"quash" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /kwɒʃ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /kwɔʃ/ [General-American], /kwɑʃ/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-quash.wav [Southern-England] Forms: quashes [present, singular, third-person], quashing [participle, present], quashed [participle, past], quashed [past]
Rhymes: -ɒʃ Etymology: 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 Dutch kwetsen (“to hurt, injure”), German quetschen (“to crush, squash”), Spanish quejar (“to complain”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|quaschen}} Middle English quaschen, {{m|enm|quasshen}} quasshen, {{m|enm|cwessen}} cwessen, {{m|enm|quassen}} quassen, {{der|en|fro|quasser}} Old French quasser, {{der|en|la|quassāre}} Latin quassāre, {{m|la|quassō}} quassō, {{m|la|cassō|t=I annul}} cassō (“I annul”), {{der|en|la|quatiō||I shake}} Latin quatiō (“I shake”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*kʷeh₁t-||to shake}} Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (“to shake”), {{qual|same root for the English words: pasta, paste, pastiche, pastry}} (same root for the English words: pasta, paste, pastiche, pastry), {{cog|nl|kwetsen|t=to hurt, injure}} Dutch kwetsen (“to hurt, injure”), {{cog|de|quetschen|t=to crush, squash}} German quetschen (“to crush, squash”), {{cog|es|quejar|t=to complain}} Spanish quejar (“to complain”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} quash (third-person singular simple present quashes, present participle quashing, simple past and past participle quashed)
  1. To defeat decisively, to suppress. Translations (to defeat forcibly): потушавам (potušavam) (Bulgarian), potlačit [perfective] (Czech), onderdrukken (Dutch), smoren (Dutch), tukahduttaa (Finnish), kukistaa (Finnish), ჩახშობა (čaxšoba) (Georgian), განადგურება (ganadgureba) (Georgian), cassare (Italian), soffocare (Italian), reprimere (Italian), tłumić (Polish), zdrobi (Romanian), сокрушать (sokrušatʹ) (Russian), aplastar (Spanish), derrotar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-quash-en-verb-oHMZoAHv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 8 26 Disambiguation of 'to defeat forcibly': 88 9 3
  2. (obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-quash-en-verb-OAmpciMd
  3. (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). Categories (topical): Law Translations (to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)): отменям (otmenjam) (Bulgarian), cassar (Catalan), zrušit [perfective] (Czech), anulovat [perfective] (Czech), vernietigen (Dutch), ongeldig verklaren (Dutch), kumota (Finnish), supprimer (French), annuler (French), გაუქმება (gaukmeba) (Georgian), ანულირება (anulireba) (Georgian), annullare (Italian), invalidare (Italian), cancellare (Italian), cassare (Italian), unieważniać (Polish), anular (Portuguese), cassar (Portuguese), suprima (Romanian), отменять (otmenjatʹ) (Russian), anular [neuter] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-quash-en-verb-Oi5ciYIQ Topics: law Disambiguation of 'to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)': 22 2 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: cask, casket, concussion, discuss, discussion, fracas, percussion, rescue, squash

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "quejar",
        "t": "to complain"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish quejar (“to complain”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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 Dutch kwetsen (“to hurt, injure”), German quetschen (“to crush, squash”), Spanish quejar (“to complain”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quashes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quashing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quashed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quashed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quash (third-person singular simple present quashes, present participle quashing, simple past and past participle quashed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cask"
    },
    {
      "word": "casket"
    },
    {
      "word": "concussion"
    },
    {
      "word": "discuss"
    },
    {
      "word": "discussion"
    },
    {
      "word": "fracas"
    },
    {
      "word": "percussion"
    },
    {
      "word": "rescue"
    },
    {
      "word": "squash"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The army quashed the rebellion.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To defeat decisively, to suppress."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ],
        [
          "decisively",
          "decisively"
        ],
        [
          "suppress",
          "suppress"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands",
          "text": "The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To crush or dash to pieces."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 2(2)”, in Criminal Appeal Act 1968, page 2",
          "text": "In the case of an appeal against conviction the Court shall, if they allow the appeal, quash the conviction.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "void",
          "void"
        ],
        [
          "suppress",
          "suppress"
        ],
        [
          "subpoena",
          "subpoena"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.)."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kwɒʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kwɔʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kwɑʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒʃ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-quash.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-quash.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-quash.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "potušavam",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "потушавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "potlačit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "onderdrukken"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "smoren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "tukahduttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "kukistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "čaxšoba",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "ჩახშობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ganadgureba",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "განადგურება"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "cassare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "soffocare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "reprimere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "tłumić"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "zdrobi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sokrušatʹ",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "сокрушать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "aplastar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to defeat forcibly",
      "word": "derrotar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otmenjam",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "отменям"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "cassar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zrušit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "anulovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "vernietigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "ongeldig verklaren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "kumota"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "supprimer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "annuler"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gaukmeba",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "გაუქმება"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "anulireba",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "ანულირება"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "annullare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "invalidare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "cancellare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "cassare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "unieważniać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "anular"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "cassar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "suprima"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otmenjatʹ",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "word": "отменять"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to void or suppress (a subpoena, decision)",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "anular"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quash"
}
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  "msg": "possible sense number in translation item: German: __IGNORE__, __IGNORE__, __IGNORE__, __IGNORE__, __IGNORE__ (2)",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "quash",
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