quashverb [ T ]
uk/kwɒʃ/us/kwɑːʃ/quash verb [ T ] (REFUSE)
to say officially that something, especially an earlier official decision, is no longer to be accepted:
His conviction was quashed in March 1986 after his counsel argued that the police evidence was all lies.
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Forbidding and banning things
- abolish
- abolitionist
- ban
- bar
- blacklist
- clean
- clean (sth) up
- curfew
- debar
- deny
- disallow
- disqualify
- nix
- off-limits
- out of bounds idiom
- outlaw
- prohibit
- prohibition
- unauthorized
- veto
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UK politics: legislation & law-making
quash verb [ T ] (STOP)
to forcefully stop something that you do not want to happen:
The revolt was swiftly quashed by government troops.
The company moved quickly to quash rumours/speculation that it is losing money.
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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