QUELLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quelled mean? 

• QUELLED (adjective)
  The adjective QUELLED has 1 sense:

1. subdued or overcome

  Familiarity information: QUELLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUELLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subdued or overcome

Synonyms:

quelled; quenched; squelched

Context example:

a squelched rumor

Similar:

suppressed (kept from public knowledge by various means)

 Context examples 

The latter, however, was not a man to be quelled by words, for he caught up his ell-measure sword-sheath and belabored the cursing clerk with it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His form was of the same strong and stalwart contour as ever: his port was still erect, his hair was still raven black; nor were his features altered or sunk: not in one year's space, by any sorrow, could his athletic strength be quelled or his vigorous prime blighted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)