Quell vs Put_down - What's the difference?
quell | put_down | Synonyms |
(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.
* {{quote-news
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(obsolete) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
* Spenser
To die.
* Spenser
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(idiomatic) To insult, belittle, or demean.
* 1965 , (The Who), (My Generation)
(of money as deposit) To pay.
To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal).
To write (something).
(of a telephone) To terminate a call; to hang up.
To add a name to a list.
To make prices, or taxes, lower.
(idiomatic) To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
(idiomatic, of an aircraft) To land.
(idiomatic) To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
(idiomatic) To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
Quell is a synonym of put_down.
As nouns the difference between quell and put_down
is that quell is source while put_down is .As a verb put_down is
.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 .put_down
English
Verb
- Why don't you put down your briefcase and stay awhile?
- "There he is!" cried Mrs. Flanders, coming round the rock and covering the whole space of the beach in a few seconds. "What has he got hold of? Put it down , Jacob! Drop it this moment!
- They frequently put down their little sister for walking slowly.
- People try to put us down / Just because we get around.
- We put down a $1,000 deposit.
- The government quickly put down the insurrection.
- For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down , The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
- Rex was in so much pain, they had to put''' him '''down .
- Put down the first thing you think of on this piece of paper.
- Don't put''' the phone '''down . I want a quick word with him,too.
- I've put''' myself '''down for the new Spanish conversation course.
- BP are putting''' petrol and diesel '''down in what could be the start of a price war.
- I had just put''' Mary '''down when you rang. So now she's crying again.
- The pilot managed to put down in a nearby farm field.
- The taxi put''' him '''down outside the hotel.
- I was unable to put down ''The Stand'': it was that exciting.