Quash vs Abolish - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between quash and abolish

is that quash is to defeat forcibly while abolish is to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice .

(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.).

(es)

To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.

Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.

* 2002', William Schabas, ''The '''abolition of the death penalty in international law (Cambridge University Press):

(archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.

* :

And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.

* :

His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.

* abrogate, annul, cancel, dissolve, nullify, repeal, revoke

* establish, found