Squelch

Definition: Squelch

Squelch

Noun

1. (informal) a crushing remark.

2. An electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise.

Verb

1. Suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion".

2. Make a sucking sound.

3. Walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow".

4. To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "squelch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Post & Telecom

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Squelch

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Crosswords: Squelch

Books

• Squelch (reference)

• The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Century's Most Promising Cancer Treatment...and the Government's Campaign to Squelch It (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Romania

The campaign of the opposition hammered away on the twin themes of the need to squelch corruption and to launch economic reform. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "squelch": squelch circuit. Additional references.

Beginning with "squelch": squelch-like.

Albanian

pllaquritje, llokoçitje (lap, plash, ripple), asgjësim (annihilation, erasure, extermination, extirpation, liquidation, rasure, ravage, undoing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏صوت الخوض في الوحل, ‏خاض في الوحل, ‏جواب مفحم, ‏أخمد (dampen, die out, expire, fall, hush, lay, muffle, oppress, put out, quench, scotch, slake, smolder, smoulder, stifle, subside, suppress, trail off), ‏رشف (sip, sucking, suction). (various references)

Bulgarian 

срязване (put down, rake, rebuff, repulse, set down, shear, shearing), срязвам (cut, detruncate, rebuff, repulse, scissor, scotch, set down, shear, snub), унищожаване (abolishment, abolition, annihilation, cancellation, consumption, demolition, destruction, devastation, dissolution, extermination, obliteration, ruination), унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), смазване (greasing, jam, lubrication, repression), смазвам (bow down, grease, jam, lubricate, mop up, oil, overbear, overwhelm, prostrate, pulverize, slush, smash, smear, steamroller, tread down, tread under, unstring, weigh down, whelm), шляпане (spank), шляпам (flop about, paddle, slop about, slosh, splash, squish). (various references)

Chinese 

压碎. (various references)

Czech

udupat (poach, stamp out), èvachtat, èvachtání. (various references)

Danish

støjspærring (muting, noise suppression), squelch (muting, noise suppression), signaldæmpning (muting, noise suppression). (various references)

Dutch

stille afstemming (muting, noise suppression, quiet tuning), squelch (muting, noise suppression), ruisonderdrukker (noise blanker, noise killer, noise suppressor), blokkering (atrioventricular block, binding, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, choking, heart block, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, infiltration, interlock, jamming, locking, mute, muting, noise suppression, putting on the skid, skidding, stopping), automatische blokkering (muting, noise suppression). (various references)

Farsi 

له کردن (Mangle, Maul, Pummel, Quash, Rase, Scotch, Squash, Squeeze), سرکوبی (Repression), صدای چلپ چلوپ پوتین درزمین گل الود, خردکردن (Break, Comminute, Crash, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hack, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mangle, Mash, Maul, Mince, Pestle, Shatter, Shiver, Smash, Smite). (various references)

Finnish

kohinan salpaaminen (muting, noise suppression). (various references)

French

suppresseur de bruit de fond, silencieux, réprimer, réplique, réglage silencieux, patauger, circuit de silence, bruit de succion, bruit de pataugeage, blocage d'un récepteur radioélectrique, blocage automatique d'un récepteur radioélectrique, blocage automatique d'un récepteur, étouffer, éliminateur de bruit de fond, écraser (squash, squeeze). (various references)

German

Rauschunterdrücker, Rauschsperre (muting, noise suppression), Nebengeräuschunterdrücker. (various references)

Greek 

κύκλωμα φίμωσης, σιγασμός (muting, noise suppression), συσκευή φίμωσης, συντρίβω (batter, beat, crash, crush, dash, demolish, grind down, knock the stuffing out of, lick, overwhelm, quash, shatter, shiver, smash, stun), συνθλίβω (crush, squash), φιμωτής, φίμωση (gagging), λήψη με ακουστικό κατώφλι (muting, noise suppression), αποστομώ (squash). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שתיק (hush, mute, quieten, shush, shut up, silence), ל�"כא (aggrieve, fight down, oppress, stifle, subdue, suppress), שכשוך (dabbling, paddling, splash, splutter, wading). (various references)

Hungarian

cuppogás, tromf, tönkrezúzás, szortyogás (snuffle), ledorongolás (excoriation, knock, repulse, snorter), kiirtás (eradication, extermination, extirpation, obliteration), eltiprás, eltaposás. (various references)

Italian

silenziatore automatico (muting, noise suppression), silenziatore (muffler, silencer), silenziamento automatico (muting, noise suppression), silenziamento, sguazzare (dabble, paddle, splash, wade, wallow), schiacciare (cave, clash, crack, crepitate, crush, jam, mash, overwhelm, pinch, press, push down, smash, squash, squeeze, swat), reprimere (inhibit, put down, quash, quell, repress, restrain, smother, suppress), fare cic ciac, circuito di silenziamento. (various references)

Manx

leaumey, leaum (sudden heavy shower), broojey (bruise, compound, compress, cram, crunch, crush, mash, pound, press, pulverization, pulverize, push, ram, squash, stamping). (various references)

Pig Latin

elchsquay

Portuguese

silenciamento automático de um receptor (muting, noise suppression), silenciador de ruídos de fundo, silenciador (silencer), terminar (accomodate, close, come to an end, cut off, discontinue, end, end up, expire, finish, finish off, get through, nail down, pull the plug, stop), pôr termo a (quench, terminate), esmagar (bash, basil, bray, break, bruise, crush, jam, kibble, lead on, mash, meal, overwhelm, pound, press, pulverize, shatter, smash, squash, suppress, triturate, whelm), esborrachar pisando, eliminador de ruídos de fundo, eliminador de ruído de fundo, conter (bottle, carry, comprise, contain, encompass, hold, hold down, imply, include, refrain, restrain, rule, withhold), circuito de silêncio, bloqueamento automático de um receptor (muting, noise suppression), acabar (accomodate, buzz, carry through, cease, come to an end, conclude, consummate, end, expire, finish, phase out, round, terminate). (various references)

Romanian

zdrobi (break, bruise, crunch, crush, defeat, demolish, destroy, grind, mash, pound, squash), reduce la tãcere (extinguish, floor, put down, put to silence, reduce to silence, silence, strangle, talk down), rãmâne înmãrmurit, lipãit (patter, splash), lipãi (patter, splatter), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), cãdere grea. (various references)

Russian 

хлюпанье, грязь (dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, grime, grubbiness, gunge, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, ordure, puddle, slob, sludge, sordidness, squalor). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

samogašenje, porazan govor, mljackanje (champ). (various references)

Spanish

sintonizador silencioso, silenciamiento automático de un receptor (muting, noise suppression), silenciador (muffler, silencer), regulador de ajuste silencioso, eliminador de ruido de fondo, chapotear (dabble, paddle, Popple, puddle, slop about, splash, squish, wade, wash), aplastar (crush, drive over, overwhelm, smash, squash, swat). (various references)

Swedish

krossa (Bray, break, bruise, crash, crunch, crush, dash, flatten, fracture, mill, pulverize, quash, scotch, scrunch, shatter, smash, steamroller). (various references)

Turkish

susturmak (blanket, Burke, confute, cut short, gag, hush, outtalk, quiet, quieten, score off, settle smb.'s hash, shush, shut up, silence, still, Stow, wither), suda yürümek (slop, slosh, slush, Wade), vıck, pestilini çıkarmak (beat smb. into a jelly, beat to a pulp, pound smb. to a jelly, slosh), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), cıvık madde, bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), şap şap diye yürüme, şap (alum, plash, smack, splash), çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, crunch, infringe, masticate, outrage, override, run down, run over, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate), çamurda yürümek (puddle about, slosh), çamur (aspersion, calumniation, clay, daub, dirt, gook, mire, muck, mud, slime, slob, slosh, slush, soggy). (various references)

Turkmen 

юorpuldatmak, юapyrtdatmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

розтоптати (tread), придушити (overwhelm). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự giẫm nát sự chấm dứt tiếng lép nhép, câu bẻ lại l� m cứng họng, câu đối đáp điếng người. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "squelch": squelched, squelcher, squelchers, squelches, squelchier, squelchiest, squelching, squelchy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Squelch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esquilache, quelch, sqelch, squach, squalk, squalsh, squel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: clues, luces, schul.

-3 letters: cels, clue, cues, ecus, hues, lech, luce, lues, lush, shul, slue, such.

-4 letters: cel, cue, ecu, els, hes, hue, leu, sec, sel, she, sue, suq, use.

-5 letters: eh, el, es, he, sh, uh, us.

+1 letter: squelchy.

+2 letters: squelched, squelcher, squelches.

+3 letters: quenchless, squelchers, squelchier, squelching.

+4 letters: squelchiest.

+5 letters: chloroquines, cliquishness, coquettishly.