0 present participle of quell
1 to stop something, especially by using force:
When would it have been the most useful in cultivating desirable affiliations or quelling potential animosities between groups?
Quelling idealist inspired onslaughts, it helped the poor law to appear less manipulative than the radically reformist options and secure a degree of popular support.
Like the fictional characters, singers suffered discursive and physical quelling.
Nixon's 1969 "silent majority" speech was effective in temporarily quelling the antiwar movement.
I think there is no more distasteful duty you can ask a soldier to perform than to lake part in quelling civil riots.
There are daily protests about bad food, clothing and conditions, and governors and staff become expert at quelling such problems.
He would probably have difficulty in quelling six or even five.
I did this because it is possible to believe that an officer might have difficulty in quelling trouble created by more than two people.
