squelchverb
uk/skweltʃ/us/skweltʃ/squelch verb (SOUND)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to make a sucking sound like the one produced when you are walking on soft, wet ground:
He got out of the car and squelched through the mud to open the gate.
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- chime
- chug
- clash
- crackling
- ding
- ding-a-ling
- ding-dong
- fizz
- hoot
- knock
- pip
- rasp
- ringer
- rumbling
- sing
- slam
- ting
- twang
- whine
- whistle
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squelch verb (STOP)
[ T ] US to quickly end something that is causing you problems:
A spokeswoman at the White House has squelched rumors about the president's ill health.
[ T ] US to silence someone by criticizing them:
The senator thoroughly squelched the journalist who tried to interrupt him during his speech.
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- suppression
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
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Interrupting & preventing from speaking
squelchnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/skweltʃ/us/skweltʃ/a sucking sound like the one produced when you are walking on soft, wet ground:
As the hikers walked down the path by the house, she could hear the squelch of their boots in the mud.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- chime
- chug
- clash
- crackling
- ding
- ding-a-ling
- ding-dong
- fizz
- hoot
- knock
- pip
- rasp
- ringer
- rumbling
- sing
- slam
- ting
- twang
- whine
- whistle
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squelchy
adjective uk/ˈskwel.tʃi/us/ˈskwel.tʃi/