squasher

Noun

1. One who, or that which, squashes.
   • It is in this sense that television, the great reducer, the great squasher of high hearts and innocence, is a depressing cultural voice. - 1996, T William Boxx, Gary M Quinlivan, Culture in crisis and the renewal of...
   • Whatever their feelings about the state's heavy-handed blows on idealist scientific writings, they appear to have remained committed to their roles as squashers of superstition. - 2009, Sigrid Schmalzer, The People's...