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English
Verb
quelling
- present participle and gerund of quell
Noun
quelling (countable and uncountable, plural quellings)
- The act by which something is quelled.
1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Retribution”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1848, →OCLC, page 594:There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
- (genetics) RNA interference.
Adjective
quelling (comparative more quelling, superlative most quelling)
- causing something to quell or be quelled