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quelling


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quell  \Quell\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Quelled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Quelling}.]  [See  {Quail}  to  cower.] 
  1.  To  die.  [Obs.] 
 
  Yet  he  did  quake  and  quaver,  like  to  quell. 
  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  To  be  subdued  or  abated;  to  yield;  to  abate.  [R.] 
 
  Winter's  wrath  begins  to  quell.  --Spenser. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  quelling 
  n  :  forceful  prevention:  "suppression  of  liberal  newspapers"; 
  "quelling  of  the  revolution"  [syn:  {suppression},  {crushing}, 
  {stifling}] 




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