squelched's Usage Examples:

It somewhat squelched the taste, enough so they were palatable.

The next push came immediately, and the baby 's body squelched out into the water.

squelched out into the water.

squelched through mud to reach our quarters, in winter through knee-deep snow.

She stared at him, squelched by the truth.

Outside of one well-publicized (and quickly squelched) attempt in Belgium, no one has tried to formally indict Bush.

At first it had squelched his desire to have more children.

In spring and summer we squelched through mud to reach our quarters, in winter through knee-deep snow.

The idea of getting on an airplane squelched any plans for traveling with him.

Synonyms:

suppressed, quelled, quenched,

Antonyms:

unsilenced, uninhibited, unmitigated, publicized,