verb
definition
To defeat decisively.
example
The army quashed the rebellion.
definition
To crush or dash to pieces.
definition
To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
noun
definition
The action of quashing something.
Examples of quashing in a Sentence
The latter was with difficulty dissuaded from quashing the election.
Consequently, at the diet of Nuremberg (1532) a recess was drafted indefinitely extending the religious truce and quashing such cases in the Reichskammergericht as involved Protestant ' In 1527 the pope's capital was sacked by Charles's army.
The " princes," supported by certain " elders " and by " the people " (quick to change their leaders), succeeded in quashing the accusation and setting the prophet free.
In 1858, when the Supreme Court, after the vote of Kansas against the Lecompton constitution, had decided that Kansas was a " slave " territory, thus quashing Douglas's theory of " popular sovereignty," he engaged in Illinois in a close and very exciting contest for the senatorship with Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, whom he met in a series of debates (at Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy and Alton), in one of which, that at Freeport, Douglas was led to declare that any territory, by " unfriendly 1 Her death in 1853 was a great blow to him and embittered him.
If the court finds that sections 78 and 79 are satisfied, it must make an order quashing the acquittal and directing a retrial.
She tackled that other rumor with an emphatic " no ", quashing speculation she may be pregnant.
The International Committee against the death sentence is protesting against this sentence and demands the quashing of the sentence.
Thus a finding of a breach of article 6.1 would not lead inexorably to the quashing of a conviction.