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quell

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kw?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English quellen, from Old English cwellan (to kill), from Proto-Germanic *kwaljan? (to make die; kill). Cognate with German quälen (to torment; agonise; smite), Swedish kvälja (to torment), Icelandic kvelja (to torture; torment). Compare also Old Armenian ??? (ke?, sore, ulcer), Old Church Slavonic ???? (žal?, pain). See also kill.

Verb

quell (third-person singular simple present quells, present participle quelling, simple past and past participle quelled)

  1. (transitive) To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. [from 10th c.]
    • 1849, Thomas Macaulay, History of England, Chapter 1:
      The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.
    • 1858, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish
      Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt.
  2. (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. [from 14th c.]
    to quell grief
    to quell the tumult of the soul
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To kill. [9th-19th c.]
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
  4. (obsolete, intransitive) To be subdued or abated; to diminish. [16th-17th c.]
    • Winter's wrath begins to quell.
  5. To die.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Chapter 7:
      Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.

Noun

quell (plural quells)

  1. A subduing.
    • 1903, Knowledge: A Monthly Record of Science
      The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power.
    • 1994, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. international drug control policy: recent experience, future options : seminar proceedings, Government Printing Office ?ISBN
      The consequences have not been significant in terms of the quell of any of the three drugs into the United States.
    • 2013, Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, Scholastic UK
      But to make things even worse, this is the year of the Seventy-fifth Hunger Games, and that means it's also a Quarter Quell. They occur every twenty-five years, marking the anniversary of the districts' defeat with over-the-top celebrations and, for extra fun, some miserable twist for the tributes.
    • 2014, Markham J. Geller, Melammu: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization, epubli ?ISBN, page 136
      An example can be found in the data about the campaigns of Aššur-b?n-apli against Arab tribes after the quell of the revolt of Šamaš-šumuk?n.

Related terms

Translations

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “quell”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

From Middle English *quelle (suggested by the verb quellen (to well up; gush forth)), from Old English cwylla, *cwielle (spring; source), from Proto-Germanic *kwell? (well; spring). Compare German Quelle.

Noun

quell (plural quells)

  1. A source, especially a spring.
    • 1969, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chronicle, Vintage ?ISBN
      Other excruciations replaced her namesake's loquacious quells so completely that when, during a lucid interval, she happened to open with her weak little hand a lavabo cock for a drink of water, the tepid lymph replied in its own lingo []
    • 2001, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Römmele, Public Information Campaigns and Opinion Research: A Handbook for the Student and Practitioner, SAGE ?ISBN, page 82
      The strategists had access to a wide array of private polling and information from focus groups; a quell of information stretching back over his years as a state-wide candidate and office holder.
  2. An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.
    • 2001, Zane Gates, The Cure, iUniverse ?ISBN, page 241
      A quell of strength over took Robin with each of his words. She was about to fall apart, but Jacob was as brave as a warrior going into battle.
    • 2011, Linda Lee Chaikin, Hawaiian Crosswinds, Moody Publishers ?ISBN
      For a moment their eyes locked, and she felt a quell of anger rise above her apprehension. Reality struck with appalling clarity, yet she could only lie down, partially drugged and untidy as she was from such rough traveling.
    • 2012, Molly Hopkins, It Happened at Boot Camp: Exclusive Novella, Hachette UK ?ISBN
      I read on. It will cost two hundred and fifty quid. I felt a quell of alarm, that's quite expensive.

Middle English

Verb

quell

  1. Alternative form of quellen

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blunt

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /bl?nt/
  • Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt (attested in the derivative Blunta (male personal name) (> English surnames Blunt, Blount)), probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (to doze) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).

Adjective

blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)

  1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
  2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
    the blunt admission that he had never liked my company
  4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
    • December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
      I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
  5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
Synonyms
  • (having a thick edge or point): dull, pointless, coarse
  • (dull in understanding): stupid, obtuse
  • (abrupt in address): curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harsh
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

blunt (plural blunts)

  1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
  2. A short needle with a strong point.
  3. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
    • 2005: to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
  4. (Britain, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
    • Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt []
  5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)

  1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
  2. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
    It blunted my appetite.
    My feeling towards her have been blunted.
Synonyms
  • blunten
Translations

See also

  • bluntly
  • dull

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *blund, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?lend?-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blont/, [bl?nt]

Adjective

blunt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blunde)

  1. Alternative form of blont

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