Satiate vs Quell - What's the difference?
satiate | quell |
To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.
(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
As a verb satiate
is to fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.As an adjective satiate
is filled to satisfaction or to excess.As a noun quell is
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Verb
(satiat)- Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.
Usage notes
Used interchangeably with, and more common than, sate.“Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog
Synonyms
* sateDerived terms
* satiatedReferences
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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 .