quelled

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Quelled by that self-inflicted injury, he must spend a lot of time not speaking, which naturally invites everyone around him to offer advice.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2021

A Performance That Quelled Doubts and Tempered Sadness There was no champion to celebrate or failed bid to lament Sunday.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2012

But what a shivering dread Quelled their bold hopes, when on their watch by night The mariners first saw the distant flames Of Ætna, and its red portentous glare Streaking the midnight waste!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

Yet penance pain, Like pain of suffering Souls at peace with God, Quelled not that gladness which, from secret source Rising, o'erflowed his heart.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Not ignorantly I offered counsel in the Synagogue, Quelled panic with authoritative calm, But knowing, having weighed the opposing risks.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma