quash Wiktionary
Jun 6, 2022To defeat decisively, to suppress. The army quashed the rebellion. a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon): Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief. 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 269: Anne that she had been perfectly right in her proceedings, since, by quashing all idle hopes, both parties would ...