- 1quash something (law) to officially say that a decision made by a court is no longer valid or correct synonym overturn His conviction was later quashed by the State Supreme Court.
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
- 2quash something to take action to stop something from continuing synonym suppress The rumors were quickly quashed.
quash
verbNAmE//kwɑʃ//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they quash ,
he / she / it quashes ,
past simple quashed ,
-ing form quashing ,
Check pronunciation: quash