To quash is to suppress or put an end to something.
(verb)See quash in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb
Origin: altered (infl. by quash) < ME quassen < MFr quasser < LL cassare, to annihilate, destroy < L cassus, empty < castus, pp. of carere, to lack: see caste
transitive verb
Origin: ME quashen < MFr quasser < L quassare, to shake, shatter, shiver, intens. < quassus, pp. of quatere, to shake, break < IE base *kwēt-, *kut-, to shake, akin to *skut- > shudder
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See quash in American Heritage Dictionary 4
transitive verb quashed, quash·ing, quash·es
Origin:
Origin: Middle English quassen
Origin: , from Old French casser, quasser
Origin: , from Medieval Latin quassāre
Origin: , alteration (influenced by quassāre, to shatter)
Origin: of cassāre
Origin: , from Latin cassus, empty, void; see kes- in Indo-European roots
.transitive verb quashed, quash·ing, quash·es
Origin:
Origin: Middle English quashen
Origin: , from Old French quasser
Origin: , from Medieval Latin quassāre, to shatter
Origin: , from Latin; see squash2
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