Quash vs Inundate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between quash and inundate

is that quash is to defeat forcibly while inundate is to cover with large amounts of water; to flood.

(es)

To defeat forcibly.

The army quashed the rebellion.

* Barrow

Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.

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To crush or dash to pieces.

* Waller

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

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

(inundat)

To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.

The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.

To overwhelm.

The agency was inundated with phone calls.

* (to cover with water) deluge, flood, beflood * (to overwhelm) deluge, flood, beflood