LekhoriLekhoriTo subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.
To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
A subduing.
The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power.
A source, especially a spring.
From Middle English quellen, from Old English cwellan (“to kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwaljaną (“to make die; kill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-....
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to quell grief
To kill.
Like barbarous miſcreants, they quelled Virgins vnto death, […]
And when they had eaten, and sat resting in a grotto, he was still singing, and she was the goddess of his Muse, — the quell of living waters out of which he drew fresh strength for new lays.