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单词 squelch
释义
squelch
verb
uk
/skweltʃ/us
/skweltʃ/

squelchverb(SOUND)

[Iusually+ adv/prep]
to make asuckingsoundlike the oneproducedwhen you arewalkingonsoft,wetground:
（如走在湿软土地上似的）发吧唧声，发扑哧声
He got out of thecarand squelched through themudtoopenthegate.他下了车，扑哧扑哧地穿过泥地去开大门。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
  • babble
  • blaze
  • chuff
  • clatter
  • click away
  • clicker
  • clinking
  • clunk
  • crump
  • gunshot
  • hiss
  • jangling
  • pip
  • plunk
  • putter
  • scrunch
  • sonic boom
  • tick
  • white noise
  • whoosh
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squelchverb(STOP)

[T]US
toquicklyend something that iscausingyouproblems:
（迅速）制止，遏制
Aspokeswomanat theWhiteHousehas squelchedrumorsabout the president'sillhealth.白宫一位女发言人迅速澄清了总统健康状况不佳的谣言。
[T]US
tosilencesomeone bycriticizingthem:
（厉言）把…镇住，使不再出声
Thesenatorthoroughlysquelched thejournalistwhotriedtointerrupthim during hisspeech.参议员完全镇住了那个想在他讲话时插嘴的记者。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing something to end
  • abandon
  • abandonment
  • all good things (must) come to an endidiom
  • and have done with itidiom
  • be over the humpidiom
  • draw
  • jacksomethingin
  • killsomethingstone-deadidiom
  • knock
  • knock off (something)
  • lay
  • lay the ghost ofsomething(to rest)idiom
  • lid
  • lift
  • raise
  • stanch
  • staunch
  • stem
  • stopper
  • stranglesomethingat birthidiom
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Interrupting & preventing from speaking
squelch
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/skweltʃ/us
/skweltʃ/
asuckingsoundlike the oneproducedwhen you arewalkingonsoft,wetground:
（如走在湿软土地上似的）发吧唧声，发扑哧声
As thehikerswalkeddown thepathby thehouse, she couldhearthe squelch oftheirbootsin themud.徒步旅行者们从房子旁的小径走过时，她能听见他们的靴子吧唧吧唧踩在泥里的声音。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
  • babble
  • blaze
  • chuff
  • clatter
  • click away
  • clicker
  • clinking
  • clunk
  • crump
  • gunshot
  • hiss
  • jangling
  • pip
  • plunk
  • putter
  • scrunch
  • sonic boom
  • tick
  • white noise
  • whoosh
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squelchy
(Definition ofsquelchfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

squelch| American Dictionary

squelch
verb[T]
us
/skweltʃ/
tostopsomethingquicklyandcompletely:
Oneprofessorclaimedthat theuniversitytriedto squelch hiscriticisms.
(Definition ofsquelchfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsquelch

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However, in presidential politics, that agrarian voice was repeatedly squelched.
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In reality, however, the medicalized social worth assigned both to organ donors and living recipients is far from uniform, where the myth of medical democratization squelches debates about medical justice.
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In any event, he certainly didn'tsquelchthe second edition, which will be out in 2003.
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Although facts could be invented such that the legislators were really trying tosquelchspeed limit protests, those are not the facts of this example.
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By bringing to life these punished but not passive female figures, the singers asserted the very agency that the productions attempted thematically tosquelch.
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Especially when faced with direct statements of intention, readers, then as now, should not be expected tosquelchtheir inclinations to contest the validity or the relevance of surprising revelations.
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They were not defeated at the polls, but squelched.
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Early on, there had been speculation that either station would drop the all-news format, but these notions were squelched rather quickly.
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He squelched a local autonomy movement, earning him criticism from the leftist movement and praise from local businessman.
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Other stand-up comedians devise a strategy for quashing such outbursts, usually by having a store of retorts (known as squelches) on hand.
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Upon their return after the uprising was squelched, the women found large parts of their monastery and properties had been destroyed and plundered.
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The company had squelched any efforts they made to organize during the first decades of the 20th century by isolating or firing union leaders.
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Plans were announced later that year to renovate and expand the monastery in order to create housing units and underground parking, but negative public reaction squelched those plans.
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Due to frequent flooding, proposals have been introduced to build a flood wall on the riverbank, but opposition and cost have thus far squelched the plans.
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Have we not clearly heard over the last two weeks thesquelchof firm government?
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