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What (who) is Quash - definition
quash
REQUEST TO INVALIDATE A COURT DECISION OR PROCEEDING
Quash; Quashing
¦ verb
1. reject as invalid, especially by legal procedure.
2. suppress: rumours of job losses were quashed.
Origin
ME: from OFr. quasser 'annul', from late L. cassare (med. L. also quassare), from cassus 'null, void'; cf. squash1.
quash
REQUEST TO INVALIDATE A COURT DECISION OR PROCEEDING
Quash; Quashing
(quashes, quashing, quashed)
1.
If a court or someone in authority quashes a decision or judgment, they officially reject it.
The Appeal Court has quashed the convictions of all eleven people.
VERB: V n
2.
If someone quashes rumours, they say or do something to demonstrate that the rumours are not true.
Graham attempted to quash rumours of growing discontent.
VERB: V n
3.
To quash a rebellion or protest means to stop it, often in a violent way.
Troops were displaying an obvious reluctance to get involved in quashing demonstrations.
VERB: V n
quash
REQUEST TO INVALIDATE A COURT DECISION OR PROCEEDING
Quash; Quashing
v. to annul or set aside. In law, a motion to quash asks the judge for an order setting aside or nullifying an action, such as "quashing" service of a summons when the wrong person was served.
Examples of use of Quash
1. The government used proxy militias to quash the revolt.
2. Mr Justice Sullivan severely criticised the home secretary for first claiming to international human rights monitors that the courts could quash control orders, but then a year later telling the courts that it would be "inappropriate" to quash them.
3. Its weak transitional government, backed by Ethiopian troops, is struggling to quash an Islamic insurgency.
4. Bush should have insisted that Musharraf quash the Taliban too, he said.
5. The other companies quickly turned to Congress to quash the idea.