quell
IPA: kwˈɛɫ
noun
- A subduing.
- A source, especially a spring.
- An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.
verb
- (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
- (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
- (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
- To die.
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Examples of "quell" in Sentences
- Is the expectation is he is trying to kind of quell that emotional outburst?
- November, Sony Music issued a track called quell rumours that some of Jackson's vocals on the album were "fake".
- I think actually he reached out very aggressively basically to the right during the campaign, kind of quell these fears that he was soft on Israel.
- Thus, as we have noted, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a practicing Mormon, had to quell concerns about his religion during his presidential bid in 2008.
- Some critics of the federal government plans involving local police agencies and churches cite FEMA's attempt to "quell" dissent and facilitate the confiscation of guns from private citizens.
- The only way to "quell" al Queda and other terrorist organisations is to send black ops to destroy the terrorist cells and so called "madrasas" that are teaching twisted definitions of shahid and jihad.
- But once it was official, they were individually summoned onto a stage to discuss their Hall of Fame inclusion, they both had to stop in mid-sentence on several occasions in an attempt to quell the tear drops.
- Demonstrators led by students demanding cheaper and better state education blocked roads and lit fires as police used water cannons and tear gas to quell the latest outcry against the conservative billionaire.
- For instance, virtually all teams, even at the very highest level, will, when the opponents are attacking and one of the defenders can get his foot on the ball, will simply whack it, hard, up the field to quell the danger.
- Errahman, and Vizier and Sultan amuse themselves by undertaking plundering expeditions against insurrectionary tribes, whose sedition they first stimulate, and then quell, that is to say, by receiving from the unlucky rebels a handsome gratification.
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