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"ref": "1903, Knowledge: A Monthly Record of Science",
"text": "The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power.",
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"ref": "1978, Shiu Heng Chook, Chiang Kai-shek Close-up: A Personal View",
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"ref": "1994, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. international drug control policy: recent experience, future options : seminar proceedings, Government Printing Office",
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"ref": "1998, Mirza Arshad Ali Beg, Democracy Displaced in Pakistan: Case History of Disasters of Social Pollution",
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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2014, Markham J. Geller, Melammu: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization, epubli, page 136",
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "壓制"
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"word": "overmeesteren"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "réprimer"
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"roman": "čaxšoba",
"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "ჩახშობა"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "unterdrücken"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "reprimere"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "sedare"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "押さえる"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "pēhipēhi"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "whakarangimārie"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "sedar"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
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"word": "подавля́ть"
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"word": "ceannsaich"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "subyugar"
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"word": "reprimir"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
"word": "kuva"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
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"word": "приду́шувати"
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"sense": "transitive: to subdue, put down",
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"word": "придуши́ти"
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"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
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"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "potlačit"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "zkrotit"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "onderwerpen"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "uitroeien"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "tyynnyttää"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "rauhoittaa"
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},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "whakarangimārie"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "pēhipēhi"
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"roman": "uspokáivatʹ",
"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
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],
"word": "успока́ивать"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uspokóitʹ",
"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "успоко́ить"
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "ceannsaich"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "transitive: to suppress, put an end to",
"word": "mùch"
}
],
"word": "quell"
}
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{
"ref": "1894, George Egerton, Discords",
"text": "And when they had eaten, and sat resting in a grotto, he was still singing, and she was the goddess of his Muse, — the quell of living waters out of which he drew fresh strength for new lays.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1969, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chronicle, Vintage",
"text": "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 […]",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2001, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Römmele, Public Information Campaigns and Opinion Research: A Handbook for the Student and Practitioner, SAGE, page 82",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"ref": "2001, Zane Gates, The Cure, iUniverse, page 241",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Linda Lee Chaikin, Hawaiian Crosswinds, Moody Publishers",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Molly Hopkins, It Happened at Boot Camp: Exclusive Novella, Hachette UK",
"text": "I read on. It will cost two hundred and fifty quid. I felt a quell of alarm, that's quite expensive.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly."
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