Quell vs Quash - What's the difference?
quell | quash |
(obsolete) To kill.
To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit.
* Macaulay
* Longfellow
To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
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(obsolete) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
* Spenser
To die.
* Spenser
To defeat forcibly.
* Barrow
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To crush or dash to pieces.
* Waller
(legal) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
As verbs the difference between quell and quash
is that quell is to kill while quash is to defeat forcibly.As a noun quell
is a spring or fountain.quell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- (Spenser)
- 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 quell grief
- to quell the tumult of the soul
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- Winter's wrath begins to quell .
- Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell .
Etymology 2
(etyl) Quelle .quash
English
Verb
(es)- The army quashed the rebellion.
- Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
- The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed , / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.