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Shush vs Quell - What's the difference?

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Shush is a related term of quell.


As a verb shush

is (onomatopoeia|intransitive) to be quiet; to keep quiet.

As a noun quell is

source.

shush

English

Verb

  • (onomatopoeia) To be quiet; to keep quiet.
  • He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
  • (onomatopoeia, transitive, or, intransitive) To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying (m).
  • The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.

    See also

    * (l)

    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