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Definition
suppress or stop completely
- For a god is hard for mortal man to quell.Book 4 (47% in)
- And she seized her doughty spear, shod with sharp bronze, weighty and huge and strong, wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes with whomsoever she is wroth, the daughter of the mighty sire.Book 1 (23% in)
There are no more uses of "quell" in The Odyssey by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang).
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