Crossword clues for quelling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quell \Quell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quelling.] [See Quail to cower.]
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To die. [Obs.]
Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.
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To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. [R.]
Winter's wrath begins to quell.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
causing something to quell or be quelled n. The act by which something is quelled. v
(present participle of quell English)
WordNet
n. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" [syn: suppression, crushing, stifling]
Usage examples of "quelling".
Hawkril protested, from somewhere beneath Tshamarra, but Blackgult waved a quelling hand.
She froze, quelling her nausea, stifling her urge to jump up and gun McKendrick down.
And for the Romans, they had had no mercy, and now looked for none: and they remembered their dealings with the Goths, and saw before them, as it were, once more, yea, as in a picture, their slayings and quellings, and lashings, and cold mockings which they had dealt out to the conquered foemen without mercy, and now they longed sore for the quiet of the dark, when their hard lives should be over, and all these deeds forgotten, and they and their bitter foes should be at rest for ever.