quelling

verb

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

noun

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.”

2. (countable, uncountable)RNA interference.

adj

1. causing something to quell or be quelled