Both Uses
quell
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Resistance by Nielsen
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- Before it came to that, I'd try to quell his suspicions.†
p. 174.7 *
- Some were spreading out across the city to quell any further uprisings before they started.†
p. 303.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(quell) suppress or stop completely
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(2)
(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.