quell

To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.transitive

• The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.
• Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt.

To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.transitive

• to quell grief
• to quell the tumult of the soul

To kill.obsoletetransitive

• Like barbarous miſcreants, they quelled Virgins vnto death, […]
• Well prov'd in that same day, when Jove those gyants quelled.

To be subdued or abated; to diminish.intransitiveobsolete

• Winter's wrath begins to quell.

To die.

• Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.

A subduing.

• 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.

A source, especially a spring.

• And when they had eaten, and sat resting in a grotto, he was still singing, and she was the goddess of his Muse, — the quell of living waters out of which he drew fresh strength for new lays.
• Other excruciations replaced her namesake's loquacious quells so completely that when, during a lucid interval, she happened to open with her weak little hand a lavabo cock for a drink of water, the tepid lymph replied in its own lingo […]

An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.

• A quell of strength over took Robin with each of his words. She was about to fall apart, but Jacob was as brave as a warrior going into battle.
• For a moment their eyes locked, and she felt a quell of anger rise above her apprehension. Reality struck with appalling clarity, yet she could only lie down, partially drugged and untidy as she was from such rough traveling.