quash
/kwɑʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To defeat decisively, to suppress.
Example Sentences
- "The army quashed the rebellion."
- "Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief."
- "Anne that she had been perfectly right in her proceedings, since, by quashing all idle hopes, both parties would see the necessity of conquering their foolish passion."
- "In an early scene with her father, Alma is shown rebelling against the staid, petty and occasionally vicious life of Glorious Hill, Mississippi; her father quashes her cruelly, but it is established that Alma has it in her to defy convention."
- "The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed."
- "In the case of an appeal against conviction the Court shall, if they allow the appeal, quash the conviction."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: quaschen, quasser, quassō, quatiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kwɑʃ/
- British English: /kwɒʃ/