different between quash vs quasher

English

Etymology

From Middle English quaschen, quasshen, cwessen, quassen, from Old French quasser, from Latin quass?re, present active infinitive of quass?, under the influence of cass? (“I annul”), from Latin quati? (“I shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?eh?t- (“to shake”) (same root for the English words: pasta, paste, pastiche, pastry). Cognate with Spanish quejar (“to complain”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw??/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /kw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

quash (third-person singular simple present quashes, present participle quashing, simple past and past participle quashed)

1. To defeat decisively.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon)

     Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
2. (obsolete) To crush or dash to pieces.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands

     The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.

3. (law) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).

Related terms

• cask
• casket
• concussion
• discuss, discussion
• fracas
• percussion
• rescue
• squash

Translations

Anagrams

• huqas

English

Etymology

quash +? -er

Noun

quasher (plural quashers)

1. One who quashes.
   • 1996, Juliet Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the nature of women (page 13)

     These men were not likely to be the quashers of protest, of new ideas, of rebellion against outdated orthodoxies.