(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.
Squelch
Definition:
(v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
(n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.
Example Sentences:
(1) What was shaping a week ago to be the second successive, evenly balanced and see-saw NBA finals between these teams instead proved shockingly one-sided, as Miami were squelched for the third time in six days and lost the best-of-seven series by four games to one.
(2) The effects of the amplitude of the squelch signal and of the degree of smoothing were systematically investigated for experimental and simulated 1-D and 2-D rf echograms.
(3) In Beijing I witnessed recently how the only Chinese demonstration against the war was squelched by police, while a march by foreign residents was tolerated for just 20 minutes.
(4) The ability of the c-Jun protein, the main component of the transcription factor AP1, to interact directly or indirectly with the RNA polymerase II-initiation complex to activate transcription was investigated by in vivo transcription interference ("squelching") experiments.
(5) The GAL-TAF-1 activator was found to self-squelch without affecting basal transcription.
(6) The emerging popularity of the procedure was squelched by the frequent complication of gastrojejunal stomal ulceration.
(7) Zhou established Fengrui in 2007 and the next year took on one of the country’s biggest dairies in a scandal over tainted baby formula that the government had tried to squelch.
(8) Here, we provide evidence that EB1 and R can synergistically activate specific transcription, and that overexpressed, unbound EB1, represses the R-induced transcription ('squelching').
(9) We have to watch for and cultivate and encourage those glimmers of curiosity and possibility, not suppress them, not squelch them,” Obama told the audience on the South Lawn, which included astronauts, scientists and students.
(10) Interestingly, at high concentrations human jun-D displays decreased activity which cannot be explained by a simple self squelching model.
(11) These purified cofactors were found to be required for CTF-1-regulated transcription, and they counteracted squelching by an excess of activator in in vitro reconstitution experiments.
(12) We don’t go around that way when there are big tides,” I was told with unblinking frankness as I squelched up to my hotel reception desk.
(13) When excess v-jun is expressed in the cell, replication is inhibited or 'squelched'.
(14) We suggest that this inhibition, which we call squelching, reflects titration of a transcription factor by the activating region of GAL4.
(15) A similar level of squelching was seen after removal of the up-stream activation sequences from the yeast reporter gene, suggesting that the squelching interactions were with transcription factors needed for the activity of a basal promoter.
(16) Worse yet, some will demand they be violently squelched, as Brazilian soccer great Ronaldo did when he suggested that police crack down on masked vandals: "I think they have to bring down the clubs, get them off the street."
(17) These images are termed according to their algorithms: ZCS, zero crossing counter with squelch; ASS, analytic signal with squelch; ASW, analytic signal with Wiener kernel; UNP, unwrapped phase; and SAS, smoothed analytic signal.
(18) Once, this place may have been a shit-hole, but it was teeming, hopping, crowded" – and we squelch our way past Desolation Row to a little corner of Cairns Street where the resolute people remain.
(19) These findings suggest that saturation of the cellular capacity to mediate an estrogen response and ER-dependent squelching occur at receptor titers well above those encountered in nature.
(20) An incision was made to remove the abscess, but instead of finding pus, massive bleeding ensued whose source could not be located; it was squelched by tampons.