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Slake vs Quell - What's the difference?

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Slake is a related term of quell.


As a verb slake

is .

As a noun quell is

source.

slake

English

Verb

(slak)
  • *Sir (c.1569-1626)
  • *:When the body's strongest sinews slake .
  • *:
  • *:wherfor the quene waxed wroth with sir Launcelot / and vpon a day she called sir launcelot vnto her chamber and saide thus / Sir launcelot I see and fele dayly that thy loue begynneth to slake / for thou hast no Ioye to be in my presence / but euer thou arte oute of thys Courte
  • To go out; to become extinct.
  • *(Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
  • *:His flame did slake .
  • (label) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench; to extinguish.
  • *
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:slake the heavenly fire
  • (label) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
  • *1961 , (Lawrence Durrell), , p.14:
  • *:Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
  • (label) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • :
  • (label) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * slaked * slake trough

    Anagrams

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    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