0 to say officially that something, especially an earlier official decision, is no longer to be accepted: --
1 to forcefully stop something that you do not want to happen: --
2 to stop or block something from happening: --
The Secretary of Defense tried to quash speculation that he was planning to resign following the disastrous military defeat.
3 to state officially that something, especially an earlier official decision, is no longer to be accepted: --
quash a conviction/decision/order His conviction was quashed in March after a lengthy legal battle.
4 to forcefully stop something that you do not want to happen: --
There is an example in recent history of a rate which was illegally made, and, on appeal to the justices, that rate was quashed.
The sentence of imprisonment then awarded was subsequently remitted, but the conviction was-not quashed.
Although there have been two attempts since then to include the site in the green belt, both were quashed by the courts.
His decision was subsequently quashed by a court.
The reason for that is that there is a difference between the withholding of confirmation and the process of quashing.
In this way the claim of the opponents of nationalisation that the small man is squeezed out is quashed.
The rest were refused or only partially quashed.
In 1917, 141 convictions were affirmed and seventy-five convictions were quashed.
