squelch /skwelch or skwelsh/

1. A gurgling and sucking sound as of walking in wet mud
2. A heavy blow on, or fall of, a soft body
3. Its sound
4. A pulpy mass
5. A disconcerting or quashing retort or rebuff
6. A circuit which automatically controls the audio-frequency amplifier of a radio receiver in accordance with certain input characteristics, eg to suppress background noise at very low signal levels
7. The operation of this circuit

To make, or walk with, the sound of a squelch

1. To crush under heel
2. To put down, suppress, snub, crush

squelchˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that squelches
2. An overwhelming blow, retort, etc

squelchˈing noun and adjective

squelchˈy adjective

• distressers
• distresses
• distressful
• distressfully
• distressfulness
• distressfulnesses
• distressing
• distressingly
• distress signal
• distress signals
• distribuend
• distribuends
• distributable
• distributaries
• distributary
• distribute
• distributed
• distributed logic
• distributed processing
• distributed system
• distributed systems
• distributee
• distributees
• distributer
• distributers