Usually means: Suppresses; puts an end to.
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  1. quells: Merriam-Webster
  2. quells: Collins English Dictionary
  3. quells: Vocabulary.com
  4. quells: Wordnik
  5. quells: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. quells: Wiktionary
  7. quells: Dictionary.com
  8. quells: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. quells: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. quells: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quell)

verb:  (transitive) To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit.
verb:  (transitive) To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
verb:  To die.
noun:  A subduing.
noun:  A source, especially a spring.
noun:  An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly.
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