Help and Quash

Help

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

Quash is an antonym for help.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

Quash

Quash verb - To put a stop to (something) by the use of force.
Usage example: the dictator commanded the army to quash the uprising without mercy

Help is an antonym for quash in topics: destroy, nullify.

Nearby Word: quashing

Common collocations

town help town quash town
survivors help survivors quash survivors

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Ciaphas Cain Commissar Cain and the Valhallan 597th deploy to the planet Letonia to help quash a civil insurrection, and quickly find themselves in much more dire straits.
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