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Quell definition

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To pacify; quiet.

Finally quelled the children's fears.

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To crush; subdue; put an end to.
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To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. [from 10th c.]
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To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. [from 14th c.]

To quell grief.

To quell the tumult of the soul.

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To die.
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To quell is to stop or quiet something.

An example of quell is to soothe someone’s anger.

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To put down forcibly; suppress.

Police quelled the riot.

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To quiet; allay.
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(obs.) A killing; murder.
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Noun

Singular:
quell
Plural:
quells

Origin of quell

  • Middle English quellen to kill from Old English cwellan gwelə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old English cwellan (“to kill"). Compare Old Armenian Õ¯Õ¥Õ² (keÅ‚, “sore, ulcer"), Old Church Slavonic жаль (žalÄ­, “pain"), German quälen (“to torment, agonize, smite").

    From Wiktionary

  • German Quelle.

    From Wiktionary

Quell Sentence Examples

  • Her words did nothing to quell the anger boiling within him.

  • Toying with the necklace, Jessi tried hard to quell her panic.

  • Various means were tried to quell the rebellion.

  • He sat up, bloodied and lightheaded, unable to quell the power roiling through him.

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