Quelled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quell \Quell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quelled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Quelling}.] [See {Quail} to cower.]
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     1. To die. [Obs.]
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              Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. [R.]
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              Winter's wrath begins to quell.       --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quelled
       adj : subdued or overcome; "the quelled rebellion"; "an uprising
             quenched almost before it started"; "a squelched rumor"
             [syn: {quenched}, {squelched}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "quelled":
     broken, brought low, chastened, conquered, constrained, controlled,
     crushed, domesticated, felled, flattened, housebroke, housebroken,
     humbled, humiliated, hushed, in control, in hand, limited,
     made to grovel, mastered, put down, quashed, reduced, repressed,
     restrained, smashed, smothered, softened, squashed, squelched,
     stable, stifled, subdued, subjugated, suffocated, suppressed,
     tamed, tempered, vanquished