quelled

quelled
    adj 1: subdued or overcome; "the quelled rebellion"; "an
           uprising quenched almost before it started"; "a squelched
           rumor" [syn: {quelled}, {quenched}, {squelched}]
    

Quell \Quell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quelled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Quelling}.] [See {Quail} to cower.]
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   1. To die. [Obs.]
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            Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. [R.]
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            Winter's wrath begins to quell.       --Spenser.
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39 Moby Thesaurus words for "quelled":
      broken, brought low, chastened, conquered, constrained, controlled,
      crushed, domesticated, felled, flattened, housebroke, housebroken,
      humbled, humiliated, hushed, in control, in hand, limited,
      made to grovel, mastered, put down, quashed, reduced, repressed,
      restrained, smashed, smothered, softened, squashed, squelched,
      stable, stifled, subdued, subjugated, suffocated, suppressed,
      tamed, tempered, vanquished