Daddy lit his big old meerschaum -- the 'squelcher' Jinny called it, because of its noise -- and mooned about the room, making remarks on literature or politics, while Mother picked a work-basket cleverly from a dangerously overloaded shelf, and prepared to mend and sew.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prisoner in Fairyland] Reference

This is not an opener of discussion but a squelcher of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Pastoral] Reference

It may be the European system, which still has mandatory retirement (at 65 or 67), that is the idea-squelcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea] Reference

On this count alone, a reasonable individual might conclude that this blog is a time-eating squelcher of fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [March 24th, 2005] Reference

This should have been a squelcher, but it was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary-'Gusta] Reference

This defect likely has to do with our materialism, which can be a great squelcher of introspection and ethical balance; our accustomed perch on what we think is western civilization’s peak; our having escaped the fate of so many other nations conquered or partly laid waste by external enemies, as well as other factors I suppose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin Thinks US Is Now at War With Iran « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

But he called on the squelcher of fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2005] Reference