Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der.
Proto-Germanic *kwelaną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *kwaljaną
Proto-West Germanic *kwalljan
Old English cwellan
Middle English quellen
English quell
From Middle English quellen, from Old English cwellan (“to kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwaljaną (“to make die; kill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-. Cognate with German quälen (“to torment; agonise; smite”), Swedish kvälja (“to torment”), Icelandic kvelja (“to torture; torment”). Compare also Old Armenian կեղ (keł, “sore, ulcer”), Old Church Slavonic жаль (žalĭ, “pain”). See also kill, which may be its doublet.
Meanings
A subduing.
The consequences have not been significant in terms of the quell of any of the three drugs into the United States. 1994, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. international drug control policy: recent experience, future options : seminar proceedings, Government Printing Office, →ISBN:
Hu had been supportive of Chiang's role throughout the northern expedition and the quell of southern rebellion. 1978, Shiu Heng Chook, Chiang Kai-shek Close-up: A Personal View:
Each Martial Law was marked by the quell of civil liberties or human rights. 1998, Mirza Arshad Ali Beg, Democracy Displaced in Pakistan: Case History of Disasters of Social Pollution:
The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power. 1903, Knowledge: A Monthly Record of Science:
An example can be found in the data about the campaigns of Aššur-bān-apli against Arab tribes after the quell of the revolt of Šamaš-šumukīn. 2014, Markham J. Geller, Melammu: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization, epubli, →ISBN, page 136:
But to make things even worse, this is the year of the Seventy-fifth Hunger Games, and that means it's also a Quarter Quell. They occur every twenty-five years, marking the anniversary of the districts' defeat with over-the-top celebrations and, for extra fun, some miserable twist for the tributes. 2013, Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, UK: Scholastic:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der.
Proto-Germanic *kwelaną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *kwaljaną
Proto-West Germanic *kwalljan
Old English cwellan
Middle English quellen
English quell
From Middle English quellen, from Old English cwellan (“to kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwaljaną (“to make die; kill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-. Cognate with German quälen (“to torment; agonise; smite”), Swedish kvälja (“to torment”), Icelandic kvelja (“to torture; torment”). Compare also Old Armenian կեղ (keł, “sore, ulcer”), Old Church Slavonic жаль (žalĭ, “pain”). See also kill, which may be its doublet.
Meanings
(transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt. 1858 October 16, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
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, →OCLC:
(transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
to quell grief
to quell the tumult of the soul
However, after quelling Burnley's threat, Southampton failed to build on their growing danger culminating in Tadic's missed penalty. 2014 December 13, Mandeep Sanghera, “Burnley 1-0 Southampton”, in BBC Sport:
(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 of the Tartars, which had Liued Long among Them, and was Drawne along Perforce with Them in Their Expedition against Hungarie: Recorded by Matthew Paris in the Year [of] Our Lord 1243”, in [Samuel] Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 3rd part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 1st book, pages 63–64:
Well prov'd in that same day, when Jove those gyants quelled. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
(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:
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:
uk приду́шувати (transitive: to subdue, put down) · sv kuva (transitive: to subdue, put down) · uk придуши́ти (transitive: to subdue, put down) · mi pēhipēhi (transitive: to subdue, put down) · ja 押さえる (transitive: to subdue, put down) · es reprimir (transitive: to subdue, put down) · fi murskata (transitive: to subdue, put down) · gd mùch (transitive: to subdue, put down) · gd mùch (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · de beenden (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · cs zkrotit (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · ru подавля́ть (transitive: to subdue, put down) · nl onderwerpen (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · fi tyynnyttää (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · cs potlačit (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · de auslöschen (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · mk задуши (transitive: to subdue, put down) · ka ჩახშობა (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · de unterdrücken (transitive: to subdue, put down) · mi pēhipēhi (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · ru подави́ть (transitive: to subdue, put down) · pl uspokoić (transitive: to subdue, put down) · it sedare (transitive: to subdue, put down) · gd ceannsaich (transitive: to subdue, put down) · it reprimere (transitive: to subdue, put down) · mi whakarangimārie (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · fi rauhoittaa (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · bg потискам (transitive: to subdue, put down) · ja 鎮める (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · gd ceannsaich (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · fi kukistaa (transitive: to subdue, put down) · pt sedar (transitive: to subdue, put down) · es subyugar (transitive: to subdue, put down) · nl uitroeien (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · ru успока́ивать (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · mi whakarangimārie (transitive: to subdue, put down) · cs přemoci (transitive: to subdue, put down) · ka ჩახშობა (transitive: to subdue, put down) · cmn 壓制 /压制 (transitive: to subdue, put down) · fi tukahduttaa (transitive: to subdue, put down) · ru успоко́ить (transitive: to suppress, put an end to) · fr réprimer (transitive: to subdue, put down) · nl overmeesteren (transitive: to subdue, put down) · bg потушавам (transitive: to suppress, put an end to)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der.
Proto-West Germanic *kwalljā
Old English cwiella
Middle English *quelle
English quell
From Middle English *quelle (suggested by the verb quellen (“to well up; gush forth”)), from Old English cwylla, cwiella (“spring; source”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalljā (“spring, well”). Compare German Quelle.
Meanings
A source, especially a spring.
Other excruciations replaced her namesake's loquacious quells so completely that when, during a lucid interval, she happened to open with her weak little hand a lavabo cock for a drink of water, the tepid lymph replied in its own lingo […] 1969, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chronicle, Vintage, →ISBN:
And when they had eaten, and sat resting in a grotto, he was still singing, and she was the goddess of his Muse, — the quell of living waters out of which he drew fresh strength for new lays. 1894, George Egerton, Discords:
The strategists had access to a wide array of private polling and information from focus groups; a quell of information stretching back over his years as a state-wide candidate and office holder. 2001, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Römmele, Public Information Campaigns and Opinion Research: A Handbook for the Student and Practitioner, SAGE, →ISBN, page 82:
An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.
I read on. It will cost two hundred and fifty quid. I felt a quell of alarm, that's quite expensive. 2012, Molly Hopkins, It Happened at Boot Camp: Exclusive Novella, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
A quell of strength over took Robin with each of his words. She was about to fall apart, but Jacob was as brave as a warrior going into battle. 2001, Zane Gates, The Cure, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 241:
For a moment their eyes locked, and she felt a quell of anger rise above her apprehension. Reality struck with appalling clarity, yet she could only lie down, partially drugged and untidy as she was from such rough traveling. 2011, Linda Lee Chaikin, Hawaiian Crosswinds, Moody Publishers, →ISBN: