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v. To crush by or as if by trampling; squash.

v. To put down or silence, as with a crushing retort: squelch a rumor.

v. To suppress or inhibit: a protein that squelches gene transcription.

verb-intransitive. To produce a splashing, squishing, or sucking sound, as when walking through ooze.

n. A squishing sound.

n. A crushing reply.

n. An electric circuit that cuts off a radio receiver when the signal is too weak for reception of anything but noise.

v. to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force

v. to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of your receiver.

v. to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground

v. to walk or step through a substance such as mud

n. A squelching sound.

v. To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

n. A heavy fall, as of something flat.

n. A crushing reply.

verb-intransitive. 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.

n. 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.

v. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

n. a crushing remark

v. make a sucking sound

v. suppress or crush completely

v. walk through mud or mire

n. an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise

"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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derision    sound    go    conquer    subdue    curb    inhibit    stamp down    suppress    pad   

crush    flatten    suppress   

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quell    crush    squish    quelch    quash    squatter    squash    squidge   

Welch    Welsh    belch    felch    welch    welsh