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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

overquell en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English overquellen, equivalent to over- + quell.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To quell or subdue completely; gain or have power over.
    • What champion now shall tame the power Hell, And the unruly spirits overquell? 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
overquells Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overquelling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overquelled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overquelled Tense=Past lexicographic