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quelling

/kwel/US // kwɛl //UK // (kwɛl) //

熄灭,灭火,熄火,灭火器

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
    • : to vanquish; subdue.
    • : to quiet or allay: The child's mother quelled his fears of the thunder.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdefeat, suppress

Examples

  • Heeding Glenn’s advice, he tries to quell his ambition with gratitude for his wife and children.

  • The actions are unlikely to quell controversy surrounding the plane.

  • All along, Pfizer’s top executives have attempted to quell notions that it has been influenced by political players.

  • Writing in an open letter, Bourla quelled fears that Pfizer might be racing the clock to bring out a vaccine before the presidential election.

  • The race for a vaccine is breaking every scientific speed record, but a vaccine will not be ready to quell the current outbreak even under the most optimistic timeline.

  • The crowds insisted that the law enforcement presence prompted violence instead of quelling it.

  • They're America's biggest investor and our best chance at quelling Kim Jong Il.

  • When the high wind blew off shore, there was no backswell, on account of the pack-ice to the north quelling the sea.

  • Quelling her first impulse to scream, she dropped him gently on the pillow, and rapped to rouse up her maid.

  • It seems that after quelling the revolt at King's Cross wholesale arrests were made in Islington.

  • Once more quelling every evil they are stout of heart and hand, Now redeem thy plighted promise and restore their throne and land!

  • The remedy is as drastic as are the drugs used for epilepsy, which in quelling the spasm bring idiocy to the patient.

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