squelch
English
Pronunciation
Verb
squelch (third-person singular simple present squelches, present participle squelching, simple past and past participle squelched)
- (transitive, US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force
- Even the king’s announcement could not squelch the rumors.
- Beaumont and Flanders
- Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched.
- Carlyle
- If you deceive us you will be squelched.
- (transitive, radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of your receiver.
- (intransitive, UK) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground
- The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVI:
- [After they both fell into the lake.] Reaching the mainland some moments later and squelching back to the house, accompanied by Bobbie, like a couple of Napoleons squelching back from Moscow, [...]
- (intransitive, UK) to walk or step through a substance such as mud
- The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.
Synonyms
- (to halt): quash
Translations
to halt, stop, eliminate
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radio technology: suppress hiss or static
to make a sucking, splashing noise
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to walk or step through a substance such as a mud
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Noun
squelch (plural squelches)
- A squelching sound.
Translations
A squelching sound
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