Quell

Definition: Quell

Quell

Verb

1. Suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion".

2. Overcome or allay; "quell my hunger".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quell" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Quell

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Quiescence

Dwell; (be present); settle; (be located); alight; (arrive) stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir a step; be at a stand; n. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on.

Success

Silence, quell, nonsuit, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus, stalemate, trump; baffle; (hinder); circumvent, elude; trip up, trip up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put one's nose out of joint.

Crosswords: Quell

German (source).

Der Ewige Quell (1940)

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Books

• Japan Mobilizes Military To Quell Furor Over I-Spy Scandal -- A Future Leadership Challenge? [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Mystik : Quell der Vernunft : die Ratio auf dem Weg der Vereinigung mit Gott bei Johannes vom Kreuz (reference)

• The Customer Is about to Revolt!: 5 Key Actions to Quell an Uprising (reference)

• To Quell the Terror: The Mystery of the Vocation of the Sixteen Carmelites of Compiegne Guillotined July 17, 1794 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Quell Estata del 60 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The would-be mayor preparing to quell a riot. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Democratic Republic of Congo

Mobutu's attempts to quell these groups drew significant international criticism. (references)

Chad

Even with the help of French combat forces, the Tombalbaye government was never able to quell the insurgency. (references)

Afghanistan

His attempts to carry out badly needed economic and social reforms met with little success, and the new constitution promulgated in February 1977 failed to quell chronic political instability. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

By year's end, the army was able to quell the violence, and a tenuous peace agreement was negotiated. (references)

Honduras

On August 13, a gang clash in Tegucigalpa caused the Government to authorize police and military patrols to quell the violence. (references)

United Kingdom

The police and military in Northern Ireland continued to use plastic bullets (known in the UK as "baton rounds") to quell civil disturbances. (references)

Minorities

Indonesia

However, the Government moved in troops, who were able to quell the violence. (references)

Political Economy

Lesotho

These events also precipitated intervention by a SADC military task force in September 1998 to quell the army mutiny and return society to a state of law and order. (references)

Nigeria

The national police, army, and security forces committed extrajudicial killings and often used excessive force to quell several incidents of ethno-religious violence. (references)

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Afrikaans

onderdruk (choke, suffocate, suppress). (various references)

Albanian

shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), ‏قمع (bridle, check, crush, funnel, put down, quash, repress, repression, restrain, stamp down, subdue, suppress, suppression), ‏سكن هدئ (mollify), ‏سكن أقام (allay, dwell, inhabit, mollify, populate, reside). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разсейвам (dispel, disperse, dissipate, distract, illumine, lay, put off, resolve, satisfy, scatter), обуздавам (bit, bridle, chastise, curb, hamshackle, harness, leash, manage, rein in, repress, restrain, school, smother, steady), потушавам (clamp, extinguish, mortify, overbear, put down, put out, quash, quench, repress, smother, snuff out, squash, strangle, subdue, suppress, tread down), потискам (clamp, depress, domineer, drive back, flatten, get down, grind, gripe, inhibit, mope, muffle, oppress, persecute, pocket, press in, prey, quench, repress, suppress, throttle, tyrannize, weigh down). (various references)

Chinese 

荡平 (Quelled, Quelling). (various references)

Czech

zkrotit (break, break in, reclaim), zaplašit (allay, banish, dispel, lay, quieten, scare away, shoo, still), uklidnit (appease, becalm, calm, placate, reassure, relax, set at ease, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quench, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, tame). (various references)

Dutch

smoren (choke, suffocate, suppress), onderdrukken (choke, suffocate, suppress), neerslaan (choke, suffocate, suppress). (various references)

Esperanto

sufoki (choke, suffocate, suppress). (various references)

Faeroese

kvala (choke, strangle, suffocate, suppress), køva (choke, suffocate, suppress). (various references)

Farsi 

فرونشاندن (Appease, Calm, Curb, Extinguish, Infix, Lull, Pacify, Quash, Quench, Relieve, Remit, Repress, Sate, Slack, Soften, Stanch, Stifle, Suppress, Tranquilize), تسکین دادن (Appease, Mitigate, Pacify, Palliate, Placate, Propitiate, Salve, Smooth), سرکوبی کردن . (various references)

Finnish

tukehduttaa (choke, suffocate, suppress). (various references)

French

suffoquer, étouffer (quash, quench). (various references)

German

zügeln (bridle, chasten, check, curb, hold in, keep in, pull in, rein in, restrain, rule, school, tame, to curb), unterdrücken (choke back, clamp down on, eliminate, fight back, fight down, hold back, hold down, hold under, keep back, keep down, oppress, put down, quash, repress, restrain, shut out, sit on, suppress, throttle, to eliminate, to oppress, to repress, to suppress), niederschlagen (beat down, cast down, down, fell, flatten, knock down, knockdown, lower, precipitate, put down, suppress, to condense, to knock down, to knockdown, turn down, waive), erwürgen (choke, strangle, strangulation, suffocate, suppress, throttle), ersticken (asphyxiate, be suffocated, become choked, choke, choke up, damp, muffle, muzzle, smother, snuff, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle, to asphyxiate, to smother, to stifle), erdrosseln (choke, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle, to strangle), bezwingen (beat, capture, conquer, defeat, down, fight down, master, outfight, overcome, overmaster, subdue, subjugate, submit, to conquer, to overmaster, to subjugate, vanquish), bändigen (bring under control, harness, keep down, master, restrain, subdue, tame, train), überwinden (defeat, get over, negotiate, outgrow, overcome, subdue, subjugate, surmount, to overcome (overcame, vanquish, win over). (various references)

Greek 

καταβάλλω (bear down, debilitate, defeat, defray, exert, overbear, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, quash, subdue, vanquish), καταπνίγω (choke back, stifle, suppress), δαμάζω (break, discipline, overpower, subdue, tame). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשכך (abate, assuage, lull, mollify, pacify, soothe, still, subside), ל�"כ� יע (humble, overpower, overwhelm, subdue, subject, subjugate, subordinate). (various references)

Hungarian

megnyugtat (assuage, becalm, calm down, disembarrass, gentle, quiet, quiet down, reassure, still, to appease, to assuage, to calm sy down, to gentle, to hush, to lull, to quell, to quiet down, to reassure, to salve, to sedate, to sleek, to solace, to soothe, to still, to stroke down, to stroke sy down, to tranquillize, tranquilize, tranquillize), lecsillapít (appease, calm down, hush, quiet down, reconcile, to appease, to assuage, to calm, to mollify, to quell, to reconcile, to salve, to smooth, to stroke down, to tranquillize, tranquillize, wet blanket), elnyom (ground, oppress, overwhelm, quench, repress, ride, throttle, to bully, to coerce, to drown out, to grain down, to grain sg under one's heel, to grind, to hold down, to inhibit, to keep down, to keep under, to mask, to overwhelm, to put down, to quash, to repress, to stifle, to suppress, to tread down, to victimize, trample). (various references)

Indonesian

menumpas, memadamkan (extinguish, put down). (various references)

Italian

soffocare (choke, smother, squash, stamp out, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薬で痛み�'鎮める (to quell the pain with medicine), 暴動�'治める (to quell a disturbance), 敵�'討つ (to quell the enemy), 戦乱�'鎮める (put down a rebellion, quell the quarrel), 反乱�'鎮める (to quell a rebellion), 取り鎮める (to quell, to quiet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼうどう�'おさめる (to quell a disturbance), は�"ら�"�'しずめる (to quell a rebellion), とりしずめる (to quell, to quiet), てき�'うつ (to quell the enemy). (various references)

Manx

kiunaghey (allay, appease, appeasement, becalm, calm, calming, compose, die down, hush, hush as child, lull, pacification, pacify, quiet, quieten, sedate, sedation, soothe, steady down, tranquillization, tranquillize). (various references)

Norwegian

undertrykke, dempe (curb, dim, fade). (various references)

Pig Latin

ellquay

Portuguese

suprimir (burke, crush, cut, dele, dissolve, eliminate, exterminate, fade away, knock out, liquidate, obliterate, prune, put down, quash, smother, stop, suppress, throttle, wipe out), sufocar (choke, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), subjugar (crush, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, rule, subdue, subject, subjugate, suppress, tame, vanquish, yoke), reprimir (allay, arrest, bit, bridle, check, coerce, constrain, control, cork, douse, forbear, gulp, halt, keep back, keep down, overbear, quench, refrain, rein in, repress, restrain, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, throttle, tutor, vanquish), estrangular (choke, emote, garotte, garrotte, mug, scrag, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, suppress, throttle), dominar (come over, command, conquer, control, cover, dominate, domineer, enthral, enthrall, govern, have command of, lick, live out, lord, manage, master, outmatch, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpass, overpower, rein, rein in, repress, restrain, rule, subdue, subject, subjugate, surmount, vanquish, wield), debelar (defeat), abafar (blanket, burke, choke, cover up, cushion, damp, drench, drown, hugger-mugger, hush up, muffle, pilfer, smother, steal the show, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references)

Romanian

stãpâni (check, command, control, dominate, get under, govern, have, hold, hold in leash, keep in, manage, own, rage, reign, restrain, ride, rule, subdue, subjugate, sway, vanquish, wield), reprima (quash, repress, suppress), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quench, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Russian 

подавлять (bring under, browbeat, depress, grind, keep down, mortify, overbear, overpower, put down, quash, quench, repress, smother, stifle, subdue, suppress, whelm). (various references)

Scottish

ceannsaich (conquer, keep under, subdue, tame), caisg (check, curb, quench, restrain, stop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, muffle, nip, quash, repress, scotch, smother, squash, stall, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Spanish

sofocar (asphyxiate, break, choke, nearly die, put down, put out, quench, smother, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Swedish

undertrycka (hold down, inhibit, keep down, keep under, quench, repress, restrain, smother, subdue, subjugate, suppress), kväsa (suppress, take down), kuva (bit, crush, curb, subdue). (various references)

Thai

ระงับ (อารม�"์), ปราบปราม. (various references)

Turkish

yatıştırmak (abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, comfort, compose, conciliate, defuse, disarm, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, remit, salve, sedate, settle, smooth down, smother up, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), teskin etmek (alleviate, attemper, calm, lull, soothe, tranquillize), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither), заспокоювати (appease, assuage, assure, becalm, calm, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, lull, mollify, plaster, propitiate, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, satisfy, smooth, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), придушувати (deject, depress, neutralize, outray, overgo, put down, quash, quench, repress, stamp out, strangle, suppress). (various references)

Welsh

gostegu (abate, silence, still). (various references)

contuderis, contusum, retunsae, retunsum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quell": quelled, queller, quellers, quelling, quells. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quell" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buell, Guell, juell, kwell, qell, Qelt, quael, qual, qualf, qualg, qualk, Qualo, qualp, Quarll, quawl, queal, Queel, quegl, quel, quelk, quella, quelle, quello, quelm, quelp, quelt, quely, quelz, queol, quiel, quiell, quil, Quila, quilb, quilf, quilk, quilla, quille, quillo, quiln, quilp, quiol, quiwl, qule, qull, quol, quole, qwell, qyell, squell, uel, uell. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ell, leu.

-3 letters: el.

+1 letter: quells.

+2 letters: equally, quelled, queller, quilled, quillet.

+3 letters: coquille, equalled, quellers, quelling, quenelle, quillets, quinella, squalled, squaller, squillae.

+4 letters: aquarelle, coequally, coquilles, equalling, obliquely, quadrille, quenelles, quinellas, squallers, squallier, unequally.

+5 letters: aquarelles, colloquies, eloquently, maquillage, quadrilles, quarrelled, quarreller, quesadilla, squalliest, squirrelly, unequalled.