QUELLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quelling mean? 

• QUELLING (noun)
  The noun QUELLING has 1 sense:

1. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

  Familiarity information: QUELLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUELLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

crushing; quelling; stifling; suppression

Context example:

the stifling of all dissent

Hypernyms ("quelling" is a kind of...):

bar; prevention (the act of preventing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quelling"):

crackdown (severely repressive actions)

Derivation:

quell (suppress or crush completely)

 Context examples 

Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)