Quell meaning

Verb: quell

Pronunciation: (kwel)

Quell meaning:

• Suppress or crush completely.To thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission.
• Quiet, pacify, overcome.

There was a minor disturbance on a train at Hyderabad which was quickly quelled by police.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

What he did was defend his actions rather than quell the fears of systemic risk.

The likelihood of slower business growth should help dampen the Fed’s concern about an overheated economy and quell talk of a hike in interest rates.

We are holding the meeting to quell parents’ fears. We are working very quickly to identify those people we feel had the most serious risk of exposure so we can get them tested immediately.

We would probably have to get out of the way. We wouldn’t have nearly enough troops to quell the violence at that point. At a minimum, we’d have to pull back to certain military bases and try to keep working the politics.

I’ve got all the emotions raging inside of me right now. You’ve just got to quell yourself and just try to do something better for yourself and your family.

We know that there are places where angry disqualified candidates and other individuals are planning to disrupt the election. We know there is a potential for violence, but the Haitian police and U.N. troops are prepared to quell any violent attack against the election.

The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one’s nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.