Word.ws English Dictionary

quellings

quellings is the plural of quelling.

Meaning of quelling

Noun

quelling (countable and uncountable, plural quellings)

  1. 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. RNA interference.

See all 3 meanings of quelling

Questions about quellings

What is quellings the plural of?
Quellings is the plural of quelling.

Words near quellings in the dictionary

  1. quellers
  2. quellest
  3. quelleth
  4. quelling
  5. quellingly
  6. quellings
  7. quellio
  8. quellios
  9. quellkörper
  10. quells
  11. quellung

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quellings (page history and authors); quelling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “quellings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/quellings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.