Quash

The CEO is trying to quash these unfounded rumors about a merger.

Suppress the past, control the present, and quash any flicker of dissent before it can ignite into a blaze.

Firefighters worked quickly to quash the flames before they spread to nearby homes.

The army quashed the rebellion.

Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.

Anne that she had been perfectly right in her proceedings, since, by quashing all idle hopes, both parties would see the necessity of conquering their foolish passion.

In an early scene with her father, Alma is shown rebelling against the staid, petty and occasionally vicious life of Glorious Hill, Mississippi; her father quashes her cruelly, but it is established that Alma has it in her to defy convention.

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

In the case of an appeal against conviction the Court shall, if they allow the appeal, quash the conviction.