quelled

Verb

quell (third-person singular simple present quells, present participle quelling, simple past and past participle quelled)

1. (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
   • The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans...

   Synonyms:

   crush

2. (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
   • to quell grief
3. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
   • Like barbarous miſcreants, they quelled Virgins vnto death, […]1625, Yvo of Narbena, Matthew Paris, “Part of an Epistle Written by One Yvo of Narbena vnto the Archbishop of Burdeaux, Containing the Confession of an Englishman, as Touching the Barbarous Demeanour...
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
   • Winter's wrath begins to quell.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
5. To die.
   • Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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