Word Meanings - OVERQUELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To quell or subdue completely. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to OVERQUELL)

• SUBDUEMENT
  Subdual. Shak.
• SUBDUE
  1. To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10. 2. To overpower so as to disable from further
• COMPLETELY
  In a complete manner; fully.
• QUELLIO
  A ruff for the neck. B. Jonson.
• SUBDUER
  One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror. Spenser.
• QUELL
  Etym: 1. To die. Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell. Spenser. 2. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. Winter's wrath begins to quell. Spenser.
• QUELLER
  1. A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. Wyclif . 2. One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.
• SUBDUED
  1. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild. 2. Not glaring in color; soft in tone.
• MANQUELLER
  A killer of men; a manslayer. Carew.
• OVERQUELL
  To quell or subdue completely. Bp. Hall.
• INCOMPLETELY
  In an incomplete manner.