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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quash
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a court quashes/overturns sth (=says that an earlier decision was wrong)
▪ A Brazilian court has quashed a 19-year jail sentence.
quash/overturn a conviction (=officially say that it was wrong)
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed their convictions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
appeal
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction, declaring that the subjective definition was necessary.
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction because the judge had directed the jury in Caldwell terms.
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed his conviction.
▪ But the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction and accepted that the woman probably faked her injuries and fabricated the allegations.
certiorari
▪ Whereas certiorari quashes past unlawful conduct, prohibition prevents future or continued unlawful conduct.
▪ In relation to such decisions, therefore, certiorari really does quash the decision and deprive it of legal effect.
conviction
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction, declaring that the subjective definition was necessary.
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction because the judge had directed the jury in Caldwell terms.
▪ Today at Aylesbury Crown Court they asked a judge to quash those convictions.
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed his conviction.
▪ But the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction and accepted that the woman probably faked her injuries and fabricated the allegations.
▪ When the defendant appealed, the Court of Appeal upheld that submission and quashed his convictions.
▪ But in July the Appeal Court quashed the conviction and ordered a second trial.
▪ The Court therefore excluded the confession wrongly obtained by the police and went on to quash Samuel's conviction for armed robbery.
court
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction, declaring that the subjective definition was necessary.
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction because the judge had directed the jury in Caldwell terms.
▪ Fawehinmi's conviction on the contempt of court charge was quashed by the appeal court in July.
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed his conviction.
▪ But the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction and accepted that the woman probably faked her injuries and fabricated the allegations.
▪ The courts quashed the plans on the grounds that the progeny would be hybrids, with no rights under the law.
decision
▪ Simon Brown J. quashed those decisions.
▪ The jurisdiction to quash a decision only exists when there has in fact been an error of law.
▪ The tenant then applied to the Divisional Court by way of judicial review to quash the judge's decision.
▪ Mr. Page then applied by way of judicial review for an order quashing the visitor's decision.
▪ All four applications were heard by Simon Brown J. who quashed all four decisions.
▪ In relation to such decisions, therefore, certiorari really does quash the decision and deprive it of legal effect.
▪ Without specifically referring to the letter to Mr. Choudhury, he quashed both decisions by the appeal committee.
order
▪ The majority of the Court of Appeal held that it had jurisdiction to quash the judge's order.
▪ Nor does it follow that the proper course is to quash the order.
▪ The Council and the environmental health officer applied for judicial review seeking to quash the justices' order.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The company tried to quash the unwanted publicity.
▪ The court quashed the convictions after a nine-day hearing.
▪ The police were brought in to quash the strike.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he quashed rumours that the Red Fort had been quietly put up for sale due to his financial difficulties.
▪ Fawehinmi's conviction on the contempt of court charge was quashed by the appeal court in July.
▪ His first conviction was quashed on appeal, but he was eventually sentenced and spent a total of two years in jail.
▪ Mandamus sometimes issues in conjunction with certiorari to require a body whose decision has been quashed to go through the decision-making process again.
▪ Simon Brown J. quashed those decisions.
▪ The tenant then applied to the Divisional Court by way of judicial review to quash the judge's decision.
▪ Therefore on the facts of the case the indictment was bad and Widdowson's conviction had to be quashed.
▪ Today at Aylesbury Crown Court they asked a judge to quash those convictions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quash

Quash \Quash\, v. i. To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.

Quash

Quash \Quash\, v. 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, v. t.] (Law) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.
--Blackstone.

Quash

Quash \Quash\, n. Same as Squash.

Quash

Quash \Quash\, v. 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, 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 rebellion.

    Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
    --Barrow.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
quash

"to make void, annul," early 14c., from Old French quasser, casser "to annul, declare void," and directly from Medieval Latin quassare, alteration of Late Latin cassare, from cassus "null, void, empty" (see caste (n.)).\n

\nMeaning "to break, crush," is early 14c., from Old French quasser, casser "to break, smash, injure, harm, weaken," from Latin quassare "to shatter," frequentative of quatere (past participle quassus) "to shake," from PIE root *kwet- "to shake" (cognates: Greek passein "to sprinkle," Lithuanian kuteti "to shake up," Old Saxon skuddian "to move violently," German schütteln "to shake," Old English scudan "to hasten").\n

\nThe words have influenced each other in form and sense since Medieval Latin and now are somewhat grown together. Related: Quashed; quashing.

Wiktionary
quash

vb. 1 To defeat forcibly. 2 To crush or dash to pieces. 3 (context legal English) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

WordNet
quash

  1. v. put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" [syn: repress, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce]

  2. declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" [syn: invalidate, annul, void, avoid, nullify] [ant: validate]

Usage examples of "quash".

If Ellis Loew got ahold of the dope he would probably quash it along with the skinny on Betty as a part-time prostie, so I decided to omit it from the report and give the information verbally to Russ Millard.

Buck had little doubt that the indwelt Antichrist would not hesitate to use his every resource to quash the rebellion scheduled to rise against him the next day.

This wish was quickly quashed as he lay in bed in his hotel room after sunset only to be emotively assaulted as forcefully as he had been at noon.

It is as if, at some point in his childhood, he was so utterly quashed by serious, stern, duty-bound parents that he found the only safe way to proceed through life was to turn his Child off completely, or to block it out.

As his attorney, Mark Sanford stated, "Legally [Owens] didn't have the right to quash the petition.

Brendan said, raising his voice to quash their argumentativeness, "downhill and cross-country skiing, skidoo and other snow-based sports, canoeing and kayaking on designated rivers, trekking on foot or mounted, hunting and fishing.

But the younger priest was visibly annoyed, and sought to draw the incident out ad absurdum in order to find grounds for quashing the fool.

Feminists such as the Cobden daughters wanted to enjoy the same human dignity as men, and that meant quashing entertainment and vices that promoted the enslavement of women, such as prostitution and the lasciviousness of London's many music halls.

Loew quash the Hudgens murder investigation because the crusading Sidster recently published an exposé on _Badge of Honor_ producer/director Max Pelts and his bent for teenage girls, and Pelts was a (five figure!

All negative or dissenting opinion was quashed, except that of a few people willing to risk their careers by expressing their opinions on ENLIGHTEN [the NSA internal e-mail system].

Once again, the threat of the Iranian bugbear, coupled with the strong sense that the administration's approach to containment was working (if it ain't broke, don't fix it) quashed the efforts of the hard-liners to push U.

Let 'em quash every pocket borough to-morrow, and bring in every mushroom town in the kingdom--they'll only increase the expense of getting into Parliament.

As late as 1929, though, the Rockefeller family was able to quash a rebellious Standard of Indiana board chairman in a proxy fight by marshaling shares owned by the several Rockefeller foundations and the heirs of old Rockefeller associates.

Pain erupted up and down his crouched body, but he quashed it, forcing all his will into Grafting two simple words.

Emerson quashed all memory of that last time, or else courage might have failed him.