Usually means: Suppress or crush completely; nullify.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word quash:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. quash: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quash: Merriam-Webster
  3. quash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quash, quash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quash: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quash: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quash, quash: Wordnik
  8. quash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quash: Wiktionary
  10. quash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quash: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. quash: Dictionary.com
  14. quash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Quash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Quash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. quash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. quash: Rhymezone
  20. quash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. quash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. quash: FreeDictionary.org
  23. quash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. quash: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. quash: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. quash: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. quash: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Quash: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. quash: Legal dictionary
  10. quash: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quash: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. QUASH: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quash: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. quash: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To defeat decisively, to suppress.
verb:  (obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces.
verb:  (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

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