Quell

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  • transitive verb. To put down forcibly; suppress.
  • transitive verb. To pacify; quiet.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Murder.
  • noun. Power or means of quelling or subduing.
  • noun. A spring; a fountain; a source from which water wells out.
  • To well or flow out.
  • To cause to die; put to death; kill; slay.
  • To cause to cease; subdue; crush: as, to quell an insurrection.
  • To reduce to peace or inaction; quiet; allay.
  • To dash out; destroy.
  • Synonyms To overpower, put down, lay, smother.
  • To calm, compose.
  • To die; perish.
  • To abate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To die.
  • intransitive verb. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.
  • noun. Murder.
  • transitive verb. To take the life of; to kill.
  • transitive verb. To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
  • transitive verb. To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease
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  • noun. A spring or fountain.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. overcome or allay
  • verb. suppress or crush completely
  • Word Usage
    "Errahman, and Vizier and Sultan amuse themselves by undertaking plundering expeditions against insurrectionary tribes, whose sedition they first stimulate, and then quell, that is to say, by receiving from the unlucky rebels a handsome gratification."
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    conquer  curb  fill  fulfil  fulfill  
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    Adel  Adele  Bel  Bell  Belle  
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