quell
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English quellen, from Old English cwellan (“to kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwaljaną (“to make die; kill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-. Cognate with German quälen (“to torment; agonise; smite”), Swedish kvälja (“to torment”), Icelandic kvelja (“to torture; torment”). Compare also Old Armenian կեղ (keł, “sore, ulcer”), Old Church Slavonic жаль (žalĭ, “pain”). See also kill, which may be its doublet.
Inflected forms:
form: quells
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quelled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: quell
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: quell
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: quelled
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: quell
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: quellest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: quelled
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: quelledst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: quells
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quelleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: quelled
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: quell
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: quelled
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: quell
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: quelled
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: quell
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: quelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.
Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt.
gloss: To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To kill.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Like barbarous miſcreants, they quelled Virgins vnto death, […]
Well prov'd in that same day, when Jove those gyants quelled.
gloss: To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Winter's wrath begins to quell.
gloss: To die.
pos: verb
examples: Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.
gloss: A subduing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Each Martial Law was marked by the quell of civil liberties or human rights.
But to make things even worse, this is the year of the Seventy-fifth Hunger Games, and that means it's also a Quarter Quell. They occur every twenty-five years, marking the anniversary of the districts' defeat with over-the-top celebrations and, for extra fun, some miserable twist for the tributes.
An example can be found in the data about the campaigns of Aššur-bān-apli against Arab tribes after the quell of the revolt of Šamaš-šumukīn.
Related words: squelch
Derived words: overquell
quellable
queller
quetiapine
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