Shush vs Quell - What's the difference?
shush | quell | Related terms |
(onomatopoeia) To be quiet; to keep quiet.
(onomatopoeia, transitive, or, intransitive) To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying (m).
(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
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
- He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
- 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)- (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 .