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Squelch  v. t.  (past & past part. squelched; pres. part. squelching)  To quell; to crush; to silence or put down. (Colloq.) "Oh 't was your luck and mine to be squelched." "If you deceive us you will be squelched."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Squelch" Quotes from Famous Books



... goin' to tell on you? Yup; that's what I mean. You get rid of Thomas and squelch that law case, and I'll keep mum. You can ...
— Cy Whittaker's Place • Joseph C. Lincoln

... foot over one of the creatures. Of course, it was nothing but imagination; but I seemed to feel it squelch beneath my ...
— The Beetle - A Mystery • Richard Marsh

... that structure was shaken to its very foundations. Even untouched, one felt shaky and uncertain on that hillside, and one would have felt his body rending to pieces as he looked where a shell burst in the midst of a trench, and heard the filthy squelch and sharp cries above the roar, and saw the awful faces through the red glare and curtain of smoke, and the mangled corpses of dead bodies hurled ...
— The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles • James Edgar Allen

... he retorted. "I didn't make the stones stick and old Bigley come down squelch on ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn

... few minutes the soft squelch of heavy boots died away in the direction of the British line, and Dennis Dashwood swallowed rapidly and felt sick. He could not see his hand in front of him, and the rain continued to hiss without cessation, falling into a neighbouring shell hole ...
— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry



Words linked to "Squelch" :   trudge, electric circuit, go, conquer, electrical circuit, slosh, splash, derision, quell, colloquialism, subdue, put-down, inhibit, slog, pad, sound, squelch circuit, squeeze, steamroller, crush, tramp, stamp, slop, quench, takedown, suppress, mash, squelcher, wring, squash, circuit, splosh, telescope, squish, stamp down, footslog, tread, curb



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