单词	squelch
释义	squelchsquelch /skweltʃ/ verb Word Origin WORD ORIGINsquelch Origin: 1600-1700 From the sound Verb Table VERB TABLE squelch Simple Form Present I, you, we, they squelch he, she, it squelches Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they squelched Present perfect I, you, we, they have squelched he, she, it has squelched Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had squelched Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will squelch Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have squelched Continuous Form Present I am squelching he, she, it is squelching you, we, they are squelching Past I, he, she, it was squelching you, we, they were squelching Present perfect I, you, we, they have been squelching he, she, it has been squelching Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been squelching Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be squelching Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been squelching Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Ankle deep in mud, we squelched across the meadow. Barrett squelched rumors that the bank will change its name. It had been raining hard and my boots squelched as I walked across the park. Melvin was squelching around in the yard outside the cowshed. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As I squelched my way back round the lochan's edge towards the road, I saw the diver. But the fact that the guy is wearing a Comedy Central shirt tends to squelch the impact. He walked on, squelching now, and quite soon came to another notice. It is not the emotion which is negative, but the fact that it has been squelched. Labor was pleased, the protests were squelched and Clinton won by a hefty margin. The dream squelched away as she went ankle-deep into a pool. The shortcomings of the watch, however, failed to squelch the dream of what it might do once perfected. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsounds made by liquids or something wet► splash the sound that a liquid makes when it falls from a height, hits something hard, or is moved rapidly around: · There was a splash behind the boat as a large silver fish jumped out of the water.· Judging from the shouts and splashes coming from the pool, everyone was having a lot of fun. fall/land etc with a splash: · Ashlee fell into the river with a loud splash. ► squelch British to make a sound like someone walking in soft, wet mud, or to move somewhere making this sound: · It had been raining hard and my boots squelched as I walked across the park.squelch along/past/through etc: · Ankle deep in mud, we squelched across the meadow.squelch around: · Melvin was squelching around in the yard outside the cowshed. ► gurgle if something such as a stream gurgles , it makes a low irregular sound like water flowing through a pipe: · The pipes in the attic gurgle in the night and keep me awake.· The washing machine gurgled as it changed cycles. ► plop to make a sound like something solid falling directly into water: plop into/onto etc: · Noah threw a stone high into the air and it plopped into the river.· Several letters plopped onto the doormat. ► bubble to make the continuous repeated sound that is made, for example, by water boiling: · A large saucepan of soup was bubbling on the stove. 1[intransitive] to make a sucking sound by walking or moving in something soft and wet:  My hair was dripping and my shoes squelched as I walked.squelch through/along/up We squelched across the field.2[transitive] American English to stop something from continuing to develop or spread SYN  squash:  Her creativity had been squelched.—squelch noun [countable]
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