SQUELCH


Meaning of SQUELCH in English

squelch /skweltʃ/ BrE AmE verb

[ Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: From the sound ]

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]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.