quell

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.

   “The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.”

2. fiil To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.

   “to quell grief”

3. fiil To kill.

   “Like barbarous miſcreants, they quelled Virgins vnto death, […]”

4. fiil To be subdued or abated; to diminish.

   “Winter's wrath begins to quell.”

5. fiil To die.

   “Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.”

6. isim A subduing.

   “The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power.”

7. isim A source, especially a spring.

   “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.”

8. isim An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.

   “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.”