Definition: quelled

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

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

Source: 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.