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quell
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Quell is an iOS and Android game developed by Fallen Tree Games and released on August 7, 2010.
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quell \Quell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quelled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Quelling .] [See Quail to cower.] To die. [Obs.] Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell. --Spenser. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. [R.] Winter's wrath begins to quell. --Spenser. ...
Usage examples of quell.
Even the news that the Yorktown, after quelling the fires and resuming fleet speed, had been torpedoed in a second attack, was again ablaze and listing, and might be abandoned, could be taken in stride.
Master Algologist Dephliny muttered, adjusting the microswitch implanted above his left occipital arch to quell the shaking in his right hand.
But here his voice was lost in the joyous acclamations of his followers who shouted amain until the Duchess quelled them with lifted hand.
He sat on the floor with his knees drawn up to his chest, watching with bafflement as Merry-Death grabbed a fleecy robe from a wall hook, sliced him a quelling glare, unlocked the door, and shot away from him, faster than an arrow from a crossbow.
Angelique waited outside the prison with a crowd of mulattoes and bekes who had come to watch the executions, and she tried to quell the panic in her breast.
She did her best to quell the anxiety rippling through her as she took her seat beside Bitsy, but it was hard.
Captain of Scouts to the mighty High Chief Graakaak, struggled to quell his cloacal quaking and give no sign that he saw the demons.
Your job was to quell the impulse to bang their stupid fat heads together, to ignore the affronted speeches of dodgy self-justification, to get them to stop shouting and to get them off the street.
A couple of them were unhappy about leaving Kibbo and Foster behind, but Ntoko quelled their dissent with a few gruff words about how the guys would want the platoon to reach the spaceport.
Quelling any inclination toward lenience, Ranulf forced himself to move.
Ashby, pressed by a superior British force, had been compelled to yield before it, and this intelligence left our partisan no moment of respite after quelling the commotions on the Pedee, before he was required to return and cover the country which had so long been indebted to his vigilance for protection.
Yet he could not stand by, even though he had schooled himself to do so, tried to quell the pendular motion of self-interest and duty that had plagued him throughout the morning.
Hawkril protested, from somewhere beneath Tshamarra, but Blackgult waved a quelling hand.
She froze, quelling her nausea, stifling her urge to jump up and gun McKendrick down.
I, William Seward, captain of this lushed up hashhead subway, will quell the Lock Ness monster with rotenone and cowboy the white whale.