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 Definitions of Squelch  [ɛltʃ]  

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Definition of 'Squelch' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) squelch
to strike or press with crushing force; squash.

2.  squelch
to put down or silence, as with a crushing retort.

3. (v.i.) squelch
to make a splashing sound.

4.  squelch
to tread heavily in water, mud, etc., with such a sound.

5. (n.) squelch
an act of squelching or suppressing.

6.  squelch
something that squelches, as a crushing retort.

7.  squelch
a splashing sound.

8.  squelch
a squelched or crushed mass of anything.

Etymology:  (1610–20; var. of quelch in same sense (perh. b. quell and quash ); initial s perh. from squash1)

Definition of 'Squelch' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown
a crushing remark

2. (verb) squelch circuit, squelch, squelcher
an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise

3. (verb) squelch, quell, quench
suppress or crush completely
"squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"

4. (verb) squelch
make a sucking sound

5. (verb) squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slop
walk through mud or mire
"We had to splosh across the wet meadow"

6. (verb) squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
"crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"


Definition of 'Squelch' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Squelch
a heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply

2. (verb) Squelch
to quell; to crush; to silence or put down


Translation of 'Squelch' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the sucking sound made by movement in a thick, sticky substance eg mud.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: geslodder Arabic flag Arabic: صَوت التَّخْويض في الوَحل Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: джапане
Brazilian flag Brazilian: chapinhar Czech flag Czech: čvachtání German flag German: das Quatschen
Danish flag Danish: svup Greek flag Greek: ρουφηχτός ήχος, πλατσούρι Estonian flag Estonian: lirts, plädin
Farsi flag Farsi: شلپ شلپ Finnish flag Finnish: litinä French flag French: bruit de succion
Hebrew flag Hebrew: קוֹל יְנִיקָה Hindi flag Hindi: फचफचाट Croatian flag Croatian: šljapkanje, gacanje
Hungarian flag Hungarian: cuppogás Indonesian flag Indonesian: bunyi sedotan Icelandic flag Icelandic: gutl, skamp
Italian flag Italian: (splash) Japanese flag Japanese: ぴしゃぴしゃという音 Korean flag Korean: (진흙 등의 속에서) 철벅거리는 소리
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: žlegsėjimas, šliuksėjimas Latvian flag Latvian: žļakstēšana; žļurkstēšana Malay flag Malay: berbunyi lecak-lecuk
Dutch flag Dutch: zuigend geluid Norwegian flag Norwegian: skvalp(ing) Polish flag Polish: chlupot
Portuguese flag Portuguese: chape-chape Romanian flag Romanian: lipăit Russian flag Russian: хлюпанье
Slovak flag Slovak: čvachtanie Slovenian flag Slovenian: čmok Serbian flag Serbian: šljapkanje
Swedish flag Swedish: klafsande Thai flag Thai: เสียงที่เกิดจากการย่ำโคลน Turkish flag Turkish: 'şap' sesi
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (在泥沼地等行走發出的) 嘎吱聲 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: хлюпання; брьохання у баг Urdu flag Urdu: کیچڑ میں بھد بھد کرتے ہوء
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự dẫm nát Chinese flag Chinese: (在泥沼地等行走发出的)咯吱声

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