Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To subdue forcibly.
- intransitive verb To inhibit or suppress.
- intransitive verb Archaic To crush by trampling.
- intransitive verb To produce a splashing, squishing, or sucking sound, as when walking through ooze.
- noun A squishing sound.
- noun An electric circuit that cuts off a radio receiver when the signal is too weak for reception of anything but noise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crushing blow; a heavy fall.
- To crush down; stamp on as if squeezing out something liquid; put an end to.
- To disconcert; discomfit; put down.
- To be crushed.
- To make a sound like that produced by treading in mud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A heavy fall, as of something flat.
- noun colloq. A crushing reply.
- transitive verb colloq. To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
- intransitive verb To make a sound like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; to make a kind of swashing sound; to squish; also, to move with such a sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, US to halt, stop,
eliminate ,stamp out , orput down , often suddenly or by force - verb transitive, radio technology to suppress the unwanted
hiss orstatic between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of your receiver. - verb intransitive, UK to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground
- verb intransitive, UK to walk or step through a substance such as mud
- noun A squelching sound.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- noun a crushing remark
- verb make a sucking sound
- verb suppress or crush completely
- verb walk through mud or mire
- noun an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you adjust the squelch from the media and put the nomination in the context of the world wide response upon winning the election ... the nomination makes perfect sense.
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If you adjust the squelch from the media and put the nomination in the context of the world wide response upon winning the election ... the nomination makes perfect sense.
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If a president fires a US Attorney because the attorney is pursuing a corruption case that the president wants to squelch, that is an improper reason, be it political or not.
About that U.S. Attorneys matter. Ann Althouse 2007
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The Dilbert Deception yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Dilbert Deception'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Did Scott Adams, Dilbert\'s creator, help W "squelch" a "bad idea" with humor?'
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I've seen this utility, shown in-game as "squelch" and in-forum as "ignore".
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Troops are being sent there, and furloughed men are ordered there to "squelch" the affair.
Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957
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Helen, deeming him overbold, sought to 'squelch' him with a look.
The Desert Valley Jackson Gregory 1912
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He didn't care for her engagements, her campaigns, or all the expectancy of her friends; to "squelch" all that, at a stroke, was the dearest wish of his heart.
The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) Henry James 1879
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Douglas ever talked of going to Virginia to "squelch" out that idea there.
Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837
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Douglas ever talked of going to Virginia to "squelch" out that idea there.
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 Abraham Lincoln 1837
valse commented on the word squelch
squelch has a definite fruit-smashing or walking-through-muck sound to it.
January 5, 2007
bilby commented on the word squelch
You're right V. Just saying this word pushes mud up between your toes.
September 5, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word squelch
A homographic homophonic autoantonym that means to silence, or to make a (squishy) sound.
January 29, 2013