quell
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To suppress or put an end to something, especially by force.
Reinforcements arrived in time to quell the uprising in the port.
Business verb
To suppress or put an end to unrest or opposition.
A frank all-hands meeting quelled the rumours of an imminent takeover.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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