Etymology

UnknownCategory:English terms with unknown etymologies#SQUELCH. Perhaps a blend of squash +‎ quell +‎ quenchCategory:English blends#SQUELCH. Compare also English squolsh, English squoosh.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskwɛlt͡ʃ/Category:English 1-syllable words#SQUELCHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SQUELCH
• Rhymes: -ɛltʃCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛltʃ#SQUELCHCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛltʃ/1 syllable#SQUELCH

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Verb

squelch (third-person singular simple present squelches, present participle squelching, simple past and past participle squelched)Category:English lemmas#SQUELCHCategory:English verbs#SQUELCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SQUELCHCategory:Pages with entries#SQUELCHCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SQUELCH

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SQUELCH, USCategory:American English#SQUELCH) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.

   Synonym: quash

   Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.Category:English terms with usage examples#SQUELCH

   • c. 1615–1616, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, “The Nice Valour, or, The Passionate Mad-man”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:

     Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched.

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   • 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     If you deceive us you will be squelched.

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   • 1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:

     The party’s dominant right wing squelched not only Sherman’s hopes for an early convention, but may have also put the MLA out of contention for the leadership.

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   • 2021 August 10, Laura Edelson, Damon McCoy, “We Research Misinformation on Facebook. It Just Disabled Our Accounts.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     We believe that Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch research that it considers inconvenient.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SQUELCH, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SQUELCH, BritishCategory:British English#SQUELCH) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.

   The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.Category:English terms with usage examples#SQUELCH

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     [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, [...]

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4. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SQUELCH, BritishCategory:British English#SQUELCH) To walk or step through a substance such as mud.

   The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.Category:English terms with usage examples#SQUELCH

Noun

squelch (countable and uncountable, plural squelches)Category:English lemmas#SQUELCHCategory:English nouns#SQUELCHCategory:English uncountable nouns#SQUELCHCategory:English countable nouns#SQUELCHCategory:English countable nouns#SQUELCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SQUELCHCategory:Pages with entries#SQUELCHCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SQUELCH

1. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SQUELCH) A squelching sound.
2. (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
3. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SQUELCH, datedCategory:English dated terms#SQUELCH) A heavy blow or fall.
4. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SQUELCH, musicCategory:en:Music#SQUELCH) A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.
   • 1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, page 91:

     Through a process of experimentation the 'acid squelch' sound came forth, which was recorded and passed on to DJ Ron Hardy to play at his Warehouse club.

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