quelling
How many syllables in quelling?
There are 2 syllables in the word quelling.How to pronounce quelling:
Synonyms for quelling:
abatement
alleviation
appeasement
bar
blunting
crackdown
crushing
dulling
easing
lessening
reduction
relief
relieving
satisfaction
slowing
softening
stifling
suppression
weakening
Antonyms for quelling:
stepping up
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- forbids
- floundered
- undo
- bleary
- snuggled
- toting
- fusty
- snarling
- cooping
- atoned
- greeted
- rehearse
- solely
- scratched
- strong-willed
- bluntly
- preserved
- suffice
- seatmate
- boughten
- raindrop
- scurried
- phial
- subtend
- ridding
- tattered
- revered
- shrieking
- among
- convent
- picking
- catchy
- gaily
- glibly
- forbade
- more than
- sorely
- douter
- cordon
- roguish
- bellow
- unless
- conversed
- lulling
- whimper
- clambered
- engrain
- blossomed
- sauted
- teetered
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