Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To kill.

(Spenser)

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

* Macaulay

The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.

* Longfellow

Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt.

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

to quell grief

to quell the tumult of the soul

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, year=2014 , date=December 13 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Burnley 1-0 Southampton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However, after quelling Burnley's threat, Southampton failed to build on their growing danger culminating in Tadic's missed penalty.}}

(obsolete) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.

* Spenser

Winter's wrath begins to quell .

To die.

* Spenser

Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell .