Reverse Dictionary: QUELL

VERBS
► ADAUNT to quell, to subdue, to suppress, to reduce to submission → 1297 obs.
► ADWESCH to extinguish, to quench; to put an end to, to suppress, to quell; to overwhelm, to destroy, to kill → a1000 obs.
► COUCH to put down, to quell, to suppress → 1577 obs.
► DAUNT to cast down, to put down, to quell → a1400 obs.
► OPPRESS to put down, to suppress; to crush, to quell, to subdue, to overwhelm a person; to check or put and end to a thing or state of things, feeling, disposition, etc. → c1340 obs.
► QUAIL ► QUILE to quell; to subdue through fear → 1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► REDD to quell, to subdue a fray; to compose a quarrel; to separate combatants → 1766 Sc. & Eng. dial.