Quashable
/ˈkwɒʃ.ə.bəl/noun
Able to be quashed, suppressed, or annulled.
Did you know?Quash comes from Anglo-French *quasser*, probably tied to Latin *quassare* (“to shatter, shake violently”), so the word’s soul is basically “broken into pieces” before it ever reached English.
Etymological Timeline
Late Latin
Latin
quassāre
“to shake violently, shatter”
Anglo-French
AF
quasser
“to break, crush, annul”
Middle English
ME
quashen
“to crush, subdue, suppress”
Modern English
English
quash
“to reject, void, or suppress by authority”
Modern English
English
quashable
“capable of being quashed”
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