drive away vs quell

drive away

verb
  • To force someone or something to leave 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, away. 

quell

verb
  • To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force (someone) to submit. 

  • To die. 

  • To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. 

noun
  • A subduing. 

  • An emotion or sensation which rises suddenly. 

  • A source, especially a spring. 

How often have the words drive away and quell occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )