Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quelling"
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) 1.7 (wn)
quelling
n : forceful prevention: "suppression of liberal newspapers";
"quelling of the revolution" [syn: {suppression}, {crushing},
{stifling}]
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