• vt. 撤销；镇压；宣布无效；捣碎

来自拉丁语quassare,使无效，来自cassare拼写变体，来自PIE*kes,砍，切，来自PIE*skei,砍，切，词源同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.

格雷厄姆试图平息有关不满情绪日益强烈的流言。

来自柯林斯例句

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

由于我熟识勃兰登堡大区区长施蒂茨, 才使大事化小,小事化了.

来自辞典例句

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

申请人寻求司法复审以撤消命令.

来自口语例句

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

申请人请求司法审理以便废除责令某人守法的命令.

来自口语例句

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

我要面对的就是如何驱走饥饿.

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