Definition

Noun The forceful act of preventing, subduing, or ending something, especially an uprising, protest, or expression, through the use of power or authority. It implies a decisive and often harsh action to crush or silence opposition.

Examples of Usage

• The quelling of the riot required a significant police presence.
• Historians wrote about the brutal quelling of the peasant revolt.
• The government was accused of the violent quelling of peaceful dissent.

Advanced Usage

• "the quelling of": This is the most common grammatical structure, used to specify what is being suppressed (e.g., , ).
• The term often carries a critical or negative connotation, suggesting the suppression is authoritarian, unjust, or excessively forceful.

Variants and Related Words

• Quell (verb): The action from which the noun is derived.
  • The authorities moved to quell the disturbance.
• Queller (noun): A rare term for one who quells.

Synonyms

• Suppression
• Subjugation
• Crushing
• Putting down
• Stifling

Antonyms

• Incitement
• Provocation
• Encouragement
• Liberation

Noun

1. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
   • the suppression of heresy
   • the quelling of the rebellion
   • the stifling of all dissent