All 3 Uses of
quell
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Norah felt her daughter again, a presence just beyond sight, and quelled a sudden urge to run upstairs and check on Paul.†
p. 46.0 *quelled = stopped or suppressed
- He liked swearing, and the memory of the hot wind on his face, and the way it quelled, for the moment anyway, this quiet rage.†
p. 206.4
- Maybe I was, he said, the strangeness of his answer quelling his mother's protests, fixing Paul in his place on the stairs.†
p. 280.8quelling = stopping or suppressing
Definitions:
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(1)
(quell) suppress or stop completely
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
While quell still means to suppress or stop, in Shakespeare's time, it had a more violent connotation--often meaning to murder or to eliminate someone or something.