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Quell   /kwɛl/   Listen
verb
Quell  v. t.  
1.
To take the life of; to kill. (Obs.) "The ducks cried as (if) men would them quelle."
2.
To overpower; to subdue; to put down. "The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority." "Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt."
3.
To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul. "Much did his words the gentle lady quell."
Synonyms: to subdue; crush; overpower; reduce; put down; repress; suppress; quiet; allay; calm; pacify.


Quell  v. i.  (past & past part. quelled; pres. part. quelling)  
1.
To die. (Obs.) "Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell."
2.
To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. (R.) "Winter's wrath begins to quell."


noun
Quell  n.  Murder. (Obs.)





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"Quell" Quotes from Famous Books



... that were glad and fleet and strong, Shall Silence take you in her net? And shall Death quell that radiant song Whose echo thrills the meadow yet? Burst the frail web about you clinging And charm Death's cruel heart with singing Till with strange tears his eyes ...
— Trees and Other Poems • Joyce Kilmer
... Music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound; 20 Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so ...
— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty
... than not, his glance rested on the eddy created by the swirl of the current past the ship's quarter. With a species of divination, she guessed somewhat the nature of his reverie. The notion stung her into a sort of fury. To quell it, she ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... would deliberately plunge the country into civil war was difficult to comprehend, even after the first steps had been taken. The majority of the Northern people were hoping and believing, day by day, that something might transpire to quell the excitement and adjust the difficulties threatening ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox
... or military, and all other persons, civil or military, who shall be found within the vicinage of such insurrections or combinations to be aiding and assisting by all the means in their power, by force of arms or otherwise, to quell and subdue such insurrections or combinations, to seize upon all those therein concerned who shall not instantly and without delay disperse and retire to their respective abodes, and to deliver them over to the civil authority of the place, to be ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 4) of Volume 1: Thomas Jefferson • Edited by James D. Richardson


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