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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



... designed to cultivate a cold sternness never to be relaxed during youth, except in the screened intimacy of the home. The boys were inured to sights of blood. They were taken to witness executions; they were expected to display no emotion; and they were obliged, on their return home, to quell any secret feeling of horror by eating plentifully of rice tinted blood-color by an admixture of salted plum juice.. Even more difficult things might be demanded of a very young boy,—to go alone at midnight to the execution-ground, for example, and bring back a head in proof of ...
— Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints • Lafcadio Hearn
... open. Follow me boldly across, and aid me to burst yon sallyport in the main wall of the castle. As many of you as like not this service, or are but ill armed to meet it, do you man the top of the outwork, draw your bowstrings to your ears, and mind you quell with your shot whatever shall appear to man the rampart. Noble Cedric, wilt thou take the direction ...
— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester
... Todd, and he raised his eyes, and he raised his hands, but the courage was not in him to speak. There was about Miss Todd as she stood, or as she sat, a firmness which showed itself even in her rotundity, a vigour in the very rubicundity of her cheek which was apt to quell the spirit of those who would fain have interfered with her. So Mr. O'Callaghan, having raised his eyes considerably, and having raised his hands a little, ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... a mad dog on the street, do not stop and try to quell him with a glance of the eye. Many have tried to do that, and it took several days to separate the two and tell which was mad ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... her form and it straightened up soldierly and noble, my heart leaped for joy; and I said, all is well, all is well—they have not broken her, they have not conquered her, she is Joan of Arc still! Yes, it was plain to me now that there was one spirit there which this dreaded judge could not quell nor make afraid. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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