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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

quelling en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. causing something to quell or be quelled

Forms

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more quelling Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most quelling Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

quellingly

quelling en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act by which something is quelled.
    • There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle. 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Retribution”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 594:
  2. (countable, uncountable) RNA interference.

Forms

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quellings Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

manquelling

quelling en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of quell
    form of quell