(KWELL), verb
To suppress or extinguish; or, to quiet one’s own or another’s anxieties.
“O the orator’s joys! / To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat, / To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself, / To lead America—to QUELL America with a great tongue.” – Walt Whitman, American poet and humanist