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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kwɒʃ/
• (General American) IPA: /kwɑʃ/
  • (米国発音, some dialects) IPA: /kwɔʃ/
• 韻: -ɒʃ, -ɑːʃ

動詞

quash (third-person singular simple present quashes, present participle quashing, simple past and past participle quashed)

1. To defeat decisively, to suppress.

   The army quashed the rebellion.

   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 269:

     Anne that she had been perfectly right in her proceedings, since, by quashing all idle hopes, both parties would see the necessity of conquering their foolish passion.

   • 1976 December 25, Robert Chesley, “New York's "Nightingale" Does No Justice to Williams' Play”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 16:

     In an early scene with her father, Alma is shown rebelling against the staid, petty and occasionally vicious life of Glorious Hill, Mississippi; her father quashes her cruelly, but it is established that Alma has it in her to defy convention.

2. (obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands:

     The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.

3. (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
   • 1968, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 2(2)”, in Criminal Appeal Act 1968‎, page 2:

     In the case of an appeal against conviction the Court shall, if they allow the appeal, quash the conviction.

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