quell

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No power but Death can ever quell --

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  1. transitive verb To put down forcibly; suppress: Police quelled the riot.
  2. transitive verb To pacify; quiet: finally quelled the children's fears.

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  1. Middle English quellen, to kill, from Old English cwellan; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English quellen, from Anglo-Saxon cwellan (= Old Saxon quellian = Old High German quellan, cwellan, quellen, chellen, chelen, Middle High German chwellen, chollen, quellen, queln, koln, German quälen = Icelandic kvelja = Swedish qvälja), kill, literally cause to die, causal of cwelan, etc., die, English queal, now usually quail: see quail. The common identification of quell with kill, of which it is said to be the earlier form, is erroneous.
  2. from quell, v.
  3. German quellen, Old High German quellan, well out.
  4. German quelle, from quellen, well out.
 

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