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.
Cognitive norms that are too restrictive turn the subject into a little tyrant who quells in advance the slightest hint of rebellion on the part of the object studied.
Civil society, led by students and labour, fought in the streets to quell the 1959 military coup.
Throughout the 1870s, the condition of the kingdom deteriorated, as food shortages and inflation incited popular revolts and a crime wave of dacoity which the authorities proved powerless to quell.
Whether founded or not, such defenses probably did more to perpetuate the anxiety of influence than to quell it.
Nixon's 1969 "silent majority" speech was effective in temporarily quelling the antiwar movement.
The disturbance was quelled by the police with army reinforcements, but clearly the potential for further violence remains.
But they were quelled and if not quelled, replaced.
Their commitment within the framework of the conference extended to a temporary exchange arrangement to quell currency fluctuations and no more.
