quash
quash 英 [kwɒʃ] 美 [kwɑʃ]
vt. 撤销；镇压，平息
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- Quash means to put down, stop, extinguish, and it’s usually used to talk about ideas, feelings, or political movements. You wouldn’t quash a grape underfoot; you would squash it. But if you were a military dictator, you would quash a revolution.
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- vt. 撤销；镇压，平息
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1. His conviction was later quashed by the Court of Appeal.
后来，上诉法院撤销了对他的判决。
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2. The rumours were quickly quashed.
流言很快被制止了。
- quash (v.) "to make void, annul," early 14c., from Old French quasser, casser "to annul, declare void," and directly from Medieval Latin quassare, alteration of Late Latin cassare, from cassus "null, void, empty" (from extended form of PIE root *kes- "to cut").
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