squelch

Heavy hailstones hissed into the grass and squelched into the mud and clanged off our robot.

He shouldn’t have lasted two innings but he survived, squelching early Dodger offensives and holding them to those two early runs while completing four innings despite three walks and four hits.

When the Federal Reserve tried to squelch the rise of the stock market in early 1929, Mitchell announced that National City would instead lend money to support the market.

The compact codifies much of the conservative vision for higher education, seeking to rein in campuses that the right perceives as liberal, quick to squelch conservative viewpoints and favoring traditionally marginalized groups.

The policy “represents one of the most caustic, corrosive and chilling efforts to squelch the voice of this commission, the office of inspector general and the Sybil Brand Commission,” Johnson said.