0 to stop something, especially by using force:
1 to completely stop or end something:
He’s been unable to quell his wife’s suspicions.
In this century, however, such criticisms have been quelled by the enormous prestige of standard modern logic, which is considered inviolate.
When would it have been the most useful in cultivating desirable affiliations or quelling potential animosities between groups?
The tie vote, however, did not quell agitation for greater specification of the national legislature's powers.
In the absence of physical freedom children would break out and run wild within the main play room until quelled by staff.
They like learning to assess the environment from the patient's experience of it, and with that knowledge they can quell disturbances.
Nature's truths are so alien to our habits that we must quell our habitual practices of thought in order to recognize and represent nature's reality.
Their irrationality, their propensity to violence and their inherent fanaticism required that collective action be promptly and decisively quelled.
Their commitment within the framework of the conference extended to a temporary exchange arrangement to quell currency fluctuations and no more.
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(尤其指透過武力)制止,平息, 鎮壓…
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(尤指通过武力)制止,平息, 镇压…
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reprimir, sofocar, calmar…
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zaptetmek, tutmak, bastırmak…
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réprimer, calmer…
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potlačit, uklidnit…
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slå ned, dæmpe, stille…
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