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quelled
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective quelled has 1 sense
- quelled(s = adj.all) quenched, squelched - subdued or overcome; "the quelled rebellion"; "an uprising quenched almost before it started"; "a squelched rumor"
THESAURUS
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
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