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Squelch   /skwɛltʃ/   Listen
verb
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."


Squelch  v. i.  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. "He turned and strode to the fire, his boots squelching as he walked." "A crazy old collier squelching along under squared yards."


noun
Squelch  n.  
1.
A heavy fall, as of something flat.
2.
Hence: A crushing reply; as, the perfect squelch for a conceited remark. (Colloq.)





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"Squelch" Quotes from Famous Books



... his shoulders good-humouredly. "You don't need to squelch me like that, Mother. I don't know that I care, particularly. I was ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed
... much more to tell except that I was never so glad to set my face home as I am now and even the roughness of this trip cannot squelch my joy. It seems to me as if years had passed since we left and to think we are only three days off from Sandy Hook seems much too wonderfully good to be possible. Some day when we have dined alone together at ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis
... simple: No discipline, no hot-cakes. And there were always a sufficient number of good fellows around to squelch anybody who tried to interfere with my efficiency. By the way, I observed how hungrily you were looking out the window this morning. Quite a change from ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... singe him for the weariness he worketh with his one tale! But that men fear him for that he hath the storms and the lightnings and all the devils that be in hell at his beck and call, they would have dug his entrails out these many years ago to get at that tale and squelch it. He telleth it always in the third person, making believe he is too modest to glorify himself—maledictions light upon him, misfortune be his dole! Good friend, ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... yes, the Reptile Press Is not confined to realms Teutonic. You squelch it—could you well do less?— With an urbanity fine, ironic. France is too chivalrous, too polite, To back these crawlers, venomous, "varment"!— But our Ambassador does quite right To—brush them lightly from ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 • Various


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