• vt. 撤銷；鎮(zhèn)壓；宣布無效；搗碎

來自拉丁語quassare,使無效，來自cassare拼寫變體，來自PIE*kes,砍，切，來自PIE*skei,砍，切，詞源同caste,segment,scissors.

quash

quash: [14] Quash goes back ultimately to Latin quatere ‘shake’ (source also of English rescue [14], which etymologically means ‘shake off, drive away’, and of concussion and percussion). From it evolved quassāre ‘shake to pieces, break’, which passed into Old French as quasser (its modern descendant is casser, from which English gets cashier ‘dismiss from the army’). English took quasser over as quash. Squash [16] comes ultimately from the Vulgar Latin derivative *exquassāre.
=> concussion, percussion, rescue, squash

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" (see caste (n.)).

Meaning "to break, crush," is early 14c., from Old French quasser, casser "to break, smash, injure, harm, weaken," from Latin quassare "to shatter," frequentative of quatere (past participle quassus) "to shake," from PIE root *kwet- "to shake" (cognates: Greek passein "to sprinkle," Lithuanian kuteti "to shake up," Old Saxon skuddian "to move violently," German schütteln "to shake," Old English scudan "to hasten").

The words have influenced each other in form and sense since Medieval Latin and now are somewhat grown together. Related: Quashed; quashing.

1. Graham attempted to quash rumours of growing discontent.

格雷厄姆試圖平息有關(guān)不滿情緒日益強(qiáng)烈的流言。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Since I knew Gauleiter Sturtz of Brandenburg quite well , I was able to quash the affair.

由于我熟識勃蘭登堡大區(qū)區(qū)長施蒂茨, 才使大事化小,小事化了.

來自辭典例句

3. The applicant sought judicial review to quash the order.

申請人尋求司法復(fù)審以撤消命令.

來自口語例句

4. The applicant sought judicial review to quash the bin - dover order.

申請人請求司法審理以便廢除責(zé)令某人守法的命令.

來自口語例句

5. I was about to learn how to quash hunger.

我要面對的就是如何驅(qū)走饑餓.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)