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verb (1)

past tense of quash
as in quelled
to put a stop to (something) by the use of force the dictator commanded the army to quash the uprising without mercy

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verb (2)

past tense of quash
as in abolished
to put an end to by formal action attorneys asked the court to quash the indictment

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Recent Examples of quashed
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The group challenged the ban, and it was quashed by the High Court in February. — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 Any attempt to recapture their childhoods was quickly quashed, however, as exemplified by Dee getting her hair caught in a drop-tower ride and Dennis vomiting right next to her. — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026 However, since then, the county has secured a victory after a judge earlier this month quashed a grand jury subpoena seeking the names and personal contact information for every person who worked during the 2020 election in the county. — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 13 July 2026 But the organization's culture and systems quashed the sharing of that information. — Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 At first, the DOJ issued administrative subpoenas, and many of those were quashed in court. — Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 12 June 2026 Despite their apparent frustrations, most Republicans voted against a Democratic measure last week that would have quashed the fund. — Justin Papp, CNBC, 10 June 2026 Behind closed doors, ProPublica revealed, the majority-Republican state Supreme Court quashed the commission’s recommendations that two Republican judges who’d admitted to committing egregious conduct violations be publicly reprimanded. — Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 5 June 2026 The Indiana state senators who quashed the president’s redistricting scheme there? — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quashed
  1. quelled
  2. abolished
  3. suppressed
  4. repealed
  5. subdued
  6. canceled
  7. overturned
  8. vacated
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  • Reading it immediately quells, or at least quelled my own, paranoia at being alone in the middle of the forest—nobody is getting got here, there’s a gate that only opens if the concierge approves of your face, voice, and name.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, officials have quelled concerns about nearby nuclear power stations.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 30 July 2026
Definition of quelled
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  • Fortunately, Gorbachev would drop his objections to SDI in time for both men to sign a landmark treaty in 1987 that abolished all intermediate range nuclear arms in Europe and made the entire world safer.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
  • About three-quarters of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of abolished
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  • Hydrogen evolution is therefore suppressed, leaving more opportunity for CO₂-derived pathways that produce carbon monoxide and formate.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • And the nastiest errors of all, the bit-flips, are suppressed to around one in a million operations.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of suppressed
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  • Prices collapsed after 1986, domestic production was increasingly exempted, and the tax was generating almost nothing by the time it was repealed.
    — Tibor Besedeš, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Parents in the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania drew national attention in June when yelling broke out at a board meeting after the district repealed a policy that had given families a choice to opt out.
    — Stephanie Cook Broadhurst, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of repealed
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  • Energy supply disruptions remain a key market concern, with tanker traffic through the strait still subdued, said Lloyd Chan, senior currency analyst at MUFG Bank in Singapore, noting that Brent prices remain way above above pre-conflict levels.
    — Chloe Taylor,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Bright colors during action sequences and conversations look vibrant, while backgrounds rendered in a more watercolor-style are properly subdued without seeming dull.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of subdued
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  • That trial is scheduled to begin next month, but could be pushed back or canceled altogether depending on what the judge decides.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Abdiel also said he was told his commercial driver’s license would be canceled.
    — Maria Santana, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of canceled
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  • But the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned the murder convictions this May and ordered a retrial, saying Colleton County’s then-clerk tainted the first trial with what the defense said was prejudicial comments to the jury.
    — Devon M. Sayers, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Rosenwald family resources helped provide the facilities that made possible the accomplishments of the Tuskegee airmen, and supported NAACP legal efforts that ultimately overturned school segregation.
    — Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of overturned
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  • But attentive voters know that Cervera is the only Republican on the nine-member Broward board and that DeSantis appointed him to fill a seat vacated by a Republican.
    — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The print, Torero (1949), was discovered during a landlord’s walkthrough of an apartment recently vacated via an eviction.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of vacated

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