squelched

• Milord enumerated the various helps; and then added [being a blusterous Irishman, sent hither for his ill tongue]: "Helps enough, you observe, Monsieur; but, MORBLEU, if you deceive us, you will be squelched (VOUS SEREZ ECRASES)!" —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• Too bad we are born with it, but have it squelched or smothered out of us by the time we reach maturity. —  Analog, July-August 2006
• The Roosevelt administration did not appreciate the modest editorial criticism that appeared on the network and it squelched it. —  Power Line
• But their fight is being squelched by those advocating for our forced participation - through mandates - in an expansion of the health insurance profiteering that has killed so many of our citizens already. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
• These are being run by former newspaper journalists, at last unfettered by the limits put on them by having to produce and / or protect a print edition, and free of executives who have squelched their more radical ideas for digital reinvention.

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