Usually means: Suppressing or subduing something forcefully.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. quelling: Merriam-Webster
  2. quelling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. quelling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Quelling, quelling: Wordnik
  5. quelling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. quelling: Wiktionary
  7. Quelling, quelling: Dictionary.com
  8. quelling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Quelling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Quelling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. quelling: Rhymezone
  12. Quelling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. quelling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. quelling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. quelling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. quelling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quelling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quelling: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quelling)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is quelled.
▸ noun:  (genetics) RNA interference.
▸ adjective:  causing something to quell or be quelled

Similar:
suppression, crushing, stifling, quench, quieting, silencing, quiescence, quietening, extinguishment, tranquillization, more...

Opposite:
exacerbating, intensifying, worsening

Types:
suppression, stifling, strangling, choking, gagging, smothering, more...

Adjectives:
successful, barbarian, evil, ruthless, final, speedy, little, demon, brutal, broad, wave



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Similar:
suppression, crushing, stifling, quench, quieting, silencing, quiescence, quietening, extinguishment, tranquillization, more...

Opposite:
exacerbating, intensifying, worsening

Types:
suppression, stifling, strangling, choking, gagging, smothering, more...

Adjectives:
successful, barbarian, evil, ruthless, final, speedy, little, demon, brutal, broad, wave



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