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Definition
suppress or stop completely
- A transparent plastic tube led from under the worn cotton sheet that covered Kuttappen to a bottle of yellow liquid that caught the shaft of light that came in through the door, and quelled a question that had been rising inside Rahel.Chapter 10 (78% in)
- He still had about him the aura of rage that even murder cannot quell.Chapter 12 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "quell" in The God of Small Things.
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