(v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.
(v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.
(v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.
(v. i.) To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even before the political leaders arrived at the presidential palace, the prospect of the discussions producing a successful outcome had been quashed by the small Democratic Left party.
(2) The Court of Appeal quashed the convictions in October 1989.
(3) People don’t speak out and if they do they get quashed.
(4) With the Swedish courts last month rejecting an attempt by Assange's lawyers to quash the warrant for his arrest, Britain continuing to insist he will be arrested the instant he steps foot outside the building and the Australian refusing to budge, the situation has now reached political and legal deadlock.
(5) In one undisclosed court document in Kenya, seen by the Guardian, BAT’s lawyers demand the country’s high court “quash in its entirety” a package of anti-smoking regulations and rails against what it calls a “capricious” tax plan.
(6) Nightingale admitted the offences last year and was detained for 18 months, but following a well-organised campaign spearheaded by his wife the sentence was reduced and the conviction quashed because of the way the case had been handled by the court.
(7) The possibility of a third bailout has still not been entirely quashed.
(8) The CCRC said it made the referral after new information – not raised at trial – was received, which raises the possibility of the court of appeal quashing the conviction.
(9) The first position from the US about tobacco was advocacy of a carve-out that would quash legal challenges against tough tobacco laws, meaning there could be no trade dispute based on the adoption of domestic laws that hit tobacco products as long as those laws did not discriminate on the basis of the country of origin of the tobacco, and that the approach was scientifically based.
(10) Stock markets roared ahead and sterling tumbled after the Bank of England and European Central Bank took unprecedented steps to quash investor fears that they were preparing to reduce monetary stimulus.
(11) Miliband's office moved quickly to quash that argument.
(12) "[In the] last farm bill debate in 2008, Rep Earl Blumenauer heroically tried to force a vote on food aid reform, but was quashed by an overbearing rules committee, which wouldn't permit him to offer the amendment.
(13) Neymar almost quashed the host’s rally when he drew an excellent save from Asenjo in the 60th minute but Villarreal quickly levelled the score when a corner kick hit Mathieu and fell into the net.
(14) For sympathisers, who may or may not share his ideological beliefs, the hunger striker is the embodiment of injustice – a young man no longer seen as a convicted felon, but a victim wronged by authorities determined to quash dissent.
(15) Amid growing calls from News Corp shareholders for James Murdoch to step down as the chairman of BSkyB, his father also attempted to quash speculation that the scandal had dashed the chances of his younger taking over his media empire.
(16) China has become increasingly diligent about quashing critical voices, apparently fearful that they could spark protests like those that unseated autocrats in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya last year.
(17) Mubarak's wife, Suzanne, and her two daughters-in-law were granted special permission to visit him early on Sunday to quash rumours of his death, the official said at Cairo's Torah prison.
(18) The decision quashed a key plank of UK asylum policy.
(19) Victoria to quash gay sex convictions Read more “The legislation will ensure that any individual prosecuted under these offences will no longer suffer distress or be disadvantaged by a criminal record in relation to travel, employment, and volunteering,” said a statement from Vanessa Goodwin, the Tasmanian attorney general.
(20) They add: “ It makes little sense to maintain an additional aircraft carrier without aircraft to fly off it and the necessary aircraft, surface ships and submarines to protect it.” David Cameron appeared at last year’s Nato summit to quash speculation about the Prince of Wales’s future by saying the navy would go ahead and commission it.
Quasi
Definition:
() As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(2) ITV retained its quasi-feudal structure until the 1990s.
(3) sn-Glycerol 3-phosphate was found to decrease the quasi-stationary concentration of Fru 2,6-P2.
(4) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
(5) By using a quasi-A-B-A experimental design for the six abortion items that appeared in the Edmonton Area Survey for the years 1984, 1987, and 1988, we found that the order of presentation of the items affected dramatically the endorsement of the abortion items.
(6) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(7) In the case of first-order mass action kinetics--the quasi-species model--complementary replication, like direct replication, exhibits an error threshold for the replication accuracy, below which the genetic information is lost.
(8) Usually the condition for quasi-equilibrium is expressed in terms of the rate constants around EHR: (formula: see text) i.e.
(9) The growth of anchorage-dependent animal cells on microcarriers has enabled treatment of these cell lines as quasi-suspension cultures allowing the production of high cell densities.
(10) The results are in good agreement with the quasi-static predictions.
(11) In pilot experiments, the binding of radiolabelled peptide to the immunoglobulin fraction of calcitonin gene-related peptide and substance P antisera was characterized in quasi-physiological conditions.
(12) Ultracentrifuge analyses showed similar molecular weights and laser quasi-elastic light scattering showed similar diffusions at pH 7.0 and 9.0 in borate and in the absence of borate.
(13) The indications were initially restrictive but now embrace the quasi-totality of gallstones, complicated or not, and in particular when the patient's general condition is fragile.
(14) A final, quasi-experimental study demonstrated the importance of developing cost-effective systems for translating principles of treatment for obesity into actual treatment.
(15) The most basic mark of credibility for a Democratic campaign is whether it has bought access to the voter file as administered through NGP VAN , the Democratic party’s quasi-official vendor for voting information.
(16) An evaluated community action project carried out in New Zealand provincial cities used a quasi-experimental design which compared cities exposed to a mass media campaign, with and without community development, against reference cities.
(17) Relative to nicotine-free smoking, plasma beta-endorphin (BE) and serum cortisol concentrations increased after quasi-ad libitum smoking of 2.4 mg, but not after 1.0 mg nicotine cigarettes.
(18) But concerns about a slowing economy, jobs, civil rights and a lack of progress in the Kurdish peace process appear to have combined with worries that Erdoğan could assume quasi-dictatorial powers to thwart the president’s ambitions.
(19) B 257, 249-264] in determining the selectivity of a substrate or quasi-substrate among trypsin-like enzymes is borne out.
(20) Subjects were 279 South Australian non-specialist medical practitioners, selected by quasi-random procedures, of whom 76% responded to a postal questionnaire.