资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Quell \Quell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quelled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Quelling}.] [See {Quail} to cower.]
   1. To die. [Obs.]

            Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.
                                                  --Spenser.

   2. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. [R.]

            Winter's wrath begins to quell.       --Spenser.

资料来源 : WordNet®

quelling
     n : forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority;
         "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the
         rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" [syn: {suppression},
          {crushing}, {stifling}]