英和和英

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /kwɒʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwɔʃ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /kwɑʃ/
• 韻: -ɒʃ

動詞

quash (三人称単数 現在形 quashes, 現在分詞 quashing, 過去形および過去分詞形 quashed)

1. To defeat decisively, to suppress.

   The army quashed the rebellion.

   • a. 1678 (date written)​, Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name または sermon number). Of Contentment”, 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.

   • 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there

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.).

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アナグラム

• huqas