quellverb詞源 1/kwɛl/

• 1

  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.
  • Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt.
• 2

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

  • to quell grief
  • to quell the tumult of the soul
• 3

  obsoleteTo kill.

  • Like barbarous miſcreants, they quelled Virgins vnto death, […]
  • Well prov'd in that same day, when Jove those gyants quelled.
• 4

  obsoleteTo be subdued or abated; to diminish.

  • Winter's wrath begins to quell.
• 5

  To die.

  • Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.

quellnoun詞源 1/kwɛl/

• 1

  A subduing.

  • The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power.
  • Hu had been supportive of Chiang's role throughout the northern expedition and the quell of southern rebellion.

quellnoun詞源 2/kwɛl/

• 1

  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.
  • Other excruciations replaced her namesake's loquacious quells so completely that when, during a lucid interval, she happened to open with her weak little hand a lavabo cock for a drink of water, the tepid lymph replied in its own lingo […]
• 2

  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.
  • For a moment their eyes locked, and she felt a quell of anger rise above her apprehension. Reality struck with appalling clarity, yet she could only lie down, partially drugged and untidy as she was from such rough traveling.