Definition of "squelch"

squelch

/ˈskwɛlt͡ʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present squelches, present participle squelching, simple past and past participle squelched
1. (transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
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  Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched.
  c. 1615–1616, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, “The Nice Valovr, or, The Passionate Mad-man”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, Act V, scene i
  If you deceive us you will be squelched.
  1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […]
  The party’s dominant right wing squelched not only Sherman’s hopes for an early convention, but may have also put the MLA out of contention for the leadership.
  1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6
  We believe that Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch research that it considers inconvenient.
  2021 August 10, Laura Edelson, Damon McCoy, “We Research Misinformation on Facebook. It Just Disabled Our Accounts.”, in The New York Times‎
2. (transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
3. (intransitive, Britain) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
  Quotations
  [After they both fell into the lake.] Reaching the mainland some moments later and squelching back to the house, accompanied by Bobbie, like a couple of Napoleons squelching back from Moscow, [...]
  1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins
4. (intransitive, Britain) To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural squelches
1. (countable) A squelching sound.
2. (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
3. (countable, dated) A heavy blow or fall.
4. (countable, music) A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.
  Quotations
  Through a process of experimentation the 'acid squelch' sound came forth, which was recorded and passed on to DJ Ron Hardy to play at his Warehouse club.
  1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, page 91

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