Sekirov Dictionary

quell

/kwɛl/

verb 5
noun 3
forms 6

verb5

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To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
- The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority. — 1849
•
To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
- However, after quelling Burnley's threat, Southampton failed to build on their growing danger culminating in Tadic's missed penalty. — 2014
•
To die.
- Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell. — 1590
•
(no longer used) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
- Winter's wrath begins to quell. — 1579
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(no longer used) To kill.
- Like barbarous miscreants, they quelled Virgins vnto death, […] — 1625

noun3

•
A subduing.
- The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power. — 1903
•
An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.
- A quell of strength over took Robin with each of his words. She was about to fall apart, but Jacob was as brave as a warrior going into battle. — 2001
•
A source, especially a spring.
- And when they had eaten, and sat resting in a grotto, he was still singing, and she was the goddess of his Muse, — the quell of living waters out of which he drew fresh strength for new lays. — 1894

forms

quelled · quelledst · quelling · quelleth · quells · quellest

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