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Definitions for Squelch

[1] to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
[2] to put down, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument.
[3] to make a splashing sound.
[4] to tread heavily in water, mud, wet shoes, etc., with such a sound.
[5] a squelched or crushed mass of anything.
[6] a splashing sound.
[7] an act of squelching or suppressing, as by a crushing retort or argument.
[8] Also called squelch circuit, noise suppressor. Electronics . a circuit in a receiver, as a radio receiver, that automatically reduces or eliminates noise when the receiver is tuned to a frequency at which virtually no carrier wave occurs.
[9] (intr) to walk laboriously through soft wet material or with wet shoes, making a sucking noise
[10] (intr) to make such a noise
[11] (tr) to crush completely; squash
[12] (tr) informal to silence, as by a crushing retort
[13] a squelching sound
[14] something that has been squelched
[15] electronics a circuit that cuts off the audio-frequency amplifier of a radio receiver in the absence of an input signal, in order to suppress background noise
[16] informal a crushing remark

Words related to Squelch

thwart, muffle, squash, repress, crush, smother, extinguish, stifle, oppress, quench, censure, settle, kill, shush, strangle

Words nearby Squelch

squeeze-box, squeezebox, squeezed joint, squeezy, squeg, squelch, squeteague, squib, squib kick, squibb, squid

Origin of Squelch

1610–20; variant of quelch in same sense (perhaps blend of quell and quash); initial s perhaps from squash1

Other words from Squelch

squelch·er , noun
squelch·ing·ly , adverb
squelch·ing·ness , noun
un·squelched , adjective

Word origin for Squelch

C17: of imitative origin

Synonyms for Squelch

crush, extinguish, muffle, oppress, repress, smother, squash, stifle, thwart, censure, kill, quench, settle, shush, strangle, black out, quelch, sit on