Synonym: annul, avoid, invalidate, keep down, nullify, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate, void. Similar words: squashed, quasi, persuasion, persuasive, persuasively, ash, ashes, dash. Meaning: [kwɑʃ /kwɒʃ] v. 1. put down by force or intimidation 2. declare invalid.
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1. Graham attempted to quash rumours of growing discontent.
2. The government immediately moved to quash the revolt.
3. The company moved quickly to quash rumours/speculation that it is losing money.
4. The Chief Executive issued a statement to quash rumours of financial problems.
5. The police were brought in to quash the strike.
6. The company tried to quash the unwanted publicity.
7. They accordingly reversed the judge's decision to quash and restored the decisions of the appeal committee in both cases.
8. Chronic alcohol use can quash the libido of both men and women.
9. The jurisdiction to quash a decision only exists when there has in fact been an error of law.
10. They stamp out graffiti, quash drug deals, bust carjacking rings, rescue drug overdose victims, even prevent suicides.
11. I was about to learn how to quash hunger.
12. The applicant seeks judicial review to quash the order.
13. He applied for judicial review to quash the order.
14. The applicant sought judicial review to quash the order.
15. The applicant seek judicial review to quash the bind - over order.
16. While European regulators didn't outright quash that deal, they outlined harsh conditions required to gain approval.
17. The applicant sought judicial review to quash the bin - dover order.
18. The appeal court quash the care order make by the juvenile court.
19. The administration quickly moved to quash talk of Geithner's ouster.
20. The Court therefore excluded the confession wrongly obtained by the police and went on to quash Samuel's conviction for armed robbery.
21. The majority of the Court of Appeal held that it had jurisdiction to quash the judge's order.
22. In relation to such decisions, therefore, certiorari really does quash the decision and deprive it of legal effect.
23. Today at Aylesbury Crown Court they asked a judge to quash those convictions.
24. The Council and the environmental health officer applied for judicial review seeking to quash the justices' order.
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26. Nor does it follow that the proper course is to quash the order.
27. The tenant then applied to the Divisional Court by way of judicial review to quash the judge's decision.
28. Sri Lanka, for example, strongly pressured the UN to try to quash a UN advisory panel on accountability for war crimes committed during its armed conflict with the Tamil Tigers.
29. In recent animal studies, this chemical inhibited COX-2, a protein that spurs inflammation (the same protein that so-called COX-2 inhibitor drugs such as Celebrex quash).
30. Unlike the most effective available, the new drug doesn't quash appetite.