quash

(verb)

To defeat forcibly.

Related Terms

Examples of quash in the following topics:

  • Roosevelt's Progressivism

    • Progressives like Roosevelt also bitterly attacked what they perceived as elitist, powerful, and dangerous forces, such as political machines and large corporations called trusts, which were perceived as unfair and illegal business ventures designed to quash natural market competition and production.

  • Counterculture

    • In an effort to quash the movement, government authorities banned the psychedelic drug LSD, restricted political gatherings, and tried to enforce bans on what they considered obscenity in books, music, theater, and other media.

  • Jackson and the Democratic Party

    • They supported the Independent Treasury (the Jacksonian alternative to the Second Bank of the United States) not as a scheme to quash the special privileges of the Whig monied elite, but as a device to spread prosperity to all Americans.