quell

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something)

   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.
   • Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt.
2. 2

   To suppress, to put an end to (something)

   To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.

   • to quell grief
   • to quell the tumult of the soul
   • However, after quelling Burnley's threat, Southampton failed to build on their growing danger culminating in Tadic's missed penalty.
3. 3

   To kill.

   • Like barbarous miſcreants, they quelled Virgins vnto death, […]
   • Well prov'd in that same day, when Jove those gyants quelled.
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   1. 4

      To be subdued or abated

      To be subdued or abated; to diminish.

      • Winter's wrath begins to quell.
   2. 5

      To die.

      • Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.
   3. 6

      A subduing.

      • The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power.
      • Hu had been supportive of Chiang's role throughout the northern expedition and the quell of southern rebellion.
      • The consequences have not been significant in terms of the quell of any of the three drugs into the United States.
   4. 7

      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.
      • Other excruciations replaced her namesake's loquacious quells so completely that when, during a lucid interval, she happened to open with her weak little hand a lavabo cock for a drink of water, the tepid lymph replied in its own lingo […]
      • The strategists had access to a wide array of private polling and information from focus groups; a quell of information stretching back over his years as a state-wide candidate and office holder.
   5. 8

      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.
      • For a moment their eyes locked, and she felt a quell of anger rise above her apprehension. Reality struck with appalling clarity, yet she could only lie down, partially drugged and untidy as she was from such rough traveling.
      • I read on. It will cost two hundred and fifty quid. I felt a quell of alarm, that's quite expensive.

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