squelching
present participle ofsquelch
squelch
verb
uk/skweltʃ/us/skweltʃ/squelchverb(SOUND)
[Iusually+ adv/prep]
to make asuckingsoundlike the oneproducedwhen you arewalkingonsoft,wetground:
He got out of thecarand squelched through themudtoopenthegate.
Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- babble
- blaze
- bong
- chuff
- clatter
- click away
- clicker
- clinking
- clunk
- crump
- growl
- gunshot
- hiss
- jangling
- plunk
- scrunch
- sonic boom
- tick
- white noise
- whoosh
squelchverb(STOP)
[T]US
toquicklyend something that iscausingyouproblems:
Aspokeswomanat theWhiteHousehas squelchedrumorsabout the president'sillhealth.
[T]US
tosilencesomeone bycriticizingthem:
Thesenatorthoroughlysquelched thejournalistwhotriedtointerrupthim during hisspeech.
Causing something to end
- abandon
- abandonment
- all good things (must) come to an endidiom
- and have done with itidiom
- be over the humpidiom
- cure
- 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
Examplesofsquelching
squelching
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
They have to remain in school all day with their little shoessquelchingafter their long walk across the hills.
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How can she tolerate such conditions as exist when school rooms are described as "zoos"and school playgrounds as"squelchingquagmires"or"dust baths"?
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Well, you have not succeeded insquelchingus, and we are here to-day.
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And yet you are apologizing for thesquelchingof minority views.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Through reporting the experience of people and small businesses, he argues that these new monopolies aresquelchinginnovation, degrading product quality and safety, and destabilizing vital industrial and financial systems.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Squelchinghas been mostly studied in yeast, and most of the ideas regarding its mechanisms have come from research into modes of transcriptional control in yeast.
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- customer value
- customer-value
- customer value proposition
- customer-value-proposition
- crisp
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- crisphead
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