Meaning

1 senses

  1. (UK, dialectal)To faint away.

Origin

From Middle English quelen, from Old English cwelan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *

From Middle English quelen, from Old English cwelan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelaną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to sting, pierce”). Related to Middle Dutch quelen, queilen. Doublet of quail.

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Forms

queals, quealing, quealed, quealed

regular · Lesson

Base formqueal · to queal
3rd person singularqueals
Present participlequealing
Past simplequealed
Past participlequealed

Tenses

queal · quealed · will queal · have quealed

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyqueal
he, she, itqueals

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave quealed
he, she, ithas quealed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill queal

Past simpleLesson

all personsquealed

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
quaverquayqueasyqueenA2queerB2

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