squelch
verb (used with object)
to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
had squelched
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past perfectof squelch.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The pandemic had squelched overseas tourism, which had sustained economic activity in recent years.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
Only one, from a University of Washington yeast bank, worked at all; as he discovered too late, leaking coolant had squelched the other strains.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2017
Screaming "super state," Argentina had squelched that move, and decisions, large & small, would still be made in 21 different chancelleries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The nation's press has delivered almost daily truckloads of damning evidence about Bert Lance's banking habits and kept the story alive long after Powell and his boss thought they had squelched it.
From Time Magazine Archive
So Bart had squelched him promptly and properly.
From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Allen Chapman
