quell
verb (used with object)
to suppress; put an end to; extinguish.
queller
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a word derived from
quell.
Example Sentences
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As military policemen filled four olive-drab flamethrowers with tear gas, a dollop of the reeking riot queller spilled and gas masks were donned until it cleared.
From Time Magazine Archive
Come to us, mountain-dweller, Leader, wherever thou art, Skilled from thy cradle, a queller Of serpents, and sound to the heart!
From Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems by George Parsons Lathrop
When Khara with the hosts he led Drew near to Ráma's leafy shed, He saw that queller of the foe Stand ready with his ordered bow.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
I should like to have met that queller of mobs.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Many have tried to do that, and it took several days to separate the two and tell which was mad dog and which was queller.
From Remarks by Bill Nye
