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单词 quell
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quell
verb[T]
uk
/kwel/us
/kwel/
tostopsomething,especiallyby usingforce:
（尤指通过武力）制止，平息；镇压
Policeinriotgearwere called in to quell thedisturbances/unrest.身着防暴服的警察被召来平息骚乱。
Thislatestsetbackwill have done nothing to quell thegrowingdoubtsabout thefutureof theclub.最近这次挫折对消除人们对俱乐部前景与日俱增的疑虑没有一点好处。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing something to end
  • abandon
  • abandonment
  • all good things (must) come to an endidiom
  • and have done with itidiom
  • be over the humpidiom
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  • killsomethingstone-deadidiom
  • knock
  • knock off (something)
  • lay
  • lay the ghost ofsomething(to rest)idiom
  • lid
  • lift
  • raise
  • staunch
  • stem
  • stopper
  • stranglesomethingat birthidiom
  • subdue
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(Definition ofquellfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

quell| American Dictionary

quell
verb[T]
us
/kwel/
tocompletelystopor end something:
Thepolicewere called in to quell theriot.
If you quelldoubts,fears, etc., youcalmthem:
He’s beenunableto quell his wife’ssuspicions.
(Definition ofquellfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofquell

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In this century, however, such criticisms have been quelled by the enormous prestige of standard modern logic, which is considered inviolate.
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When would it have been the most useful in cultivating desirable affiliations or quelling potential animosities between groups?
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The tie vote, however, did notquellagitation for greater specification of the national legislature's powers.
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In the absence of physical freedom children would break out and run wild within the main play room until quelled by staff.
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They like learning to assess the environment from the patient's experience of it, and with that knowledge they canquelldisturbances.
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Nature's truths are so alien to our habits that we mustquellour habitual practices of thought in order to recognize and represent nature's reality.
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Their irrationality, their propensity to violence and their inherent fanaticism required that collective action be promptly and decisively quelled.
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Their commitment within the framework of the conference extended to a temporary exchange arrangement toquellcurrency fluctuations and no more.
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But they were quelled and if not quelled, replaced.
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The disturbance was quelled by the police with army reinforcements, but clearly the potential for further violence remains.
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Nixon's 1969 "silent majority" speech was effective in temporarily quelling the antiwar movement.
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Whether founded or not, such defenses probably did more to perpetuate the anxiety of influence than toquellit.
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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 toquell.
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Civil society, led by students and labour, fought in the streets toquellthe 1959 military coup.
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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.
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