Quelling

verb

Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.verbTo subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit.

2.verbTo suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.

"to quell grief"

3.verbTo kill.

4.verbTo be subdued or abated; to diminish.

5.verbTo die.

6.nounThe act by which something is quelled.

7.adjectiveCausing something to quell or be quelled

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