quell

1. (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.Examples: "The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority."; "Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt."Synonyms: crushtransitive

2. (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.Examples: "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."transitive

3. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.Examples: "Like barbarous miſcreants, they quelled Virgins vnto death, […]"; "Well prov'd in that same day, when Jove those gyants quelled."obsoletetransitive

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.Examples: "Winter's wrath begins to quell."intransitiveobsolete