'Quelling' definitions:
Definition of 'quelling'
From: WordNet
noun
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, quelling, stifling]
Definition of 'Quelling'
From: GCIDE
- Quell \Quell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quelling.] [See Quail to cower.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To die. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Winter's wrath begins to quell. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]