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Quell vs Engulf - What's the difference?

quell | engulf | Related terms |

Quell is a related term of engulf.


As a noun quell

is source.

As a verb engulf is

to overwhelm.

quell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

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
  • * {{quote-news
    • , 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 .

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) Quelle .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spring or fountain.
    • English terms with multiple etymologies

    engulf

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To overwhelm.
    • Desperation engulfed her after her daughter's death.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.
  • To surround; to cover.
    • Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed earth.