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Quash vs Quasher - What's the difference?

quash | quasher |

As a verb quash

is to defeat forcibly.

As a noun quasher is

one who quashes.

quash

English

Verb

(es)
  • To defeat forcibly.
    • The army quashed the rebellion.
  • * Barrow
    • Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
  • * '>citation
  • 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.).

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    quasher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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    • These men were not likely to be the quashers of protest, of new ideas, of rebellion against outdated orthodoxies.