Quelling Synonyms and Antonyms

Suppress or crush completely
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. suppressing
  2. silencing
  3. quenching
  4. squelching
  5. quieting
  6. quashing
  7. subduing
  8. soothing
  9. repressing
  10. reducing
  11. extinguishing
  12. squashing
  13. pacifying
  14. overwhelming
  15. overpowering
  16. overcoming
  17. killing
  18. stopping
  19. crushing
  20. defeating
  21. destroying
  22. curbing
  23. cooling
  24. conquering
  25. checking
  26. calming
  27. assuaging
  28. allaying
Antonyms:
  1. succeeding
  2. winning
Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. suppression
  2. crushing
  3. stifling

Quelling Sentence Examples

  • Quelling her panic, she trailed Xander.

  • Quelling the desire to repeat her earlier response, she lay still in his arms, waiting for him to make the next move.

  • Lachambre took the field in Cavite with energy and succeeded in quelling the rebellion in that province.

  • During the Polish insurrection Gorchakov rebuffed the suggestions of Great Britain, Austria and France for assuaging the severities employed in quelling it, and he was especially acrid in his replies to Earl Russell's despatches.

  • The quelling of the insurrection of the r 5th of May was his last successful act.

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