squelch
verb (used with object)
to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
unsquelched
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a word derived from
squelch.
Example Sentences
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Said Teddy to the young Bull Moosers with unsquelched heartiness and bite: "Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard."
From Time Magazine Archive
She took the wreath of cotton wool from my passive hand and showed me, wrapped up in it, a humming-bird, luckily unhurt, unsquelched.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
