1. Make a sucking sound
   "His boots squelched in the mud"
    
2. Use force to compress, making out of normal shape or condition
   "squelch an aluminium can";
   - squash, crush, mash, squeeze, squidge [informal], squish [informal]
    
3. Walk through mud or mire
   "We had to squelch across the wet meadow";
   - squish, splash, splosh [informal], slosh, slop
    
4. [informal] Suppress or crush completely
   "squelch any sign of dissent";
   - quell, quench

1. [informal] A crushing remark
   "Her witty squelch silenced the heckler";
   - put-down [informal], squelcher, takedown
    
2. An electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise
   "The radio's squelch circuit prevented static when no station was tuned in";
   - squelch circuit, squelcher

Derived forms: squelches, squelching, squelched

See also: squashed

Type of: circuit, conquer, derision, electric circuit, electrical circuit, footslog, go, pad, plod, press, slog, sound, stamp down, subdue, suppress, tramp, trog [Brit, informal], tromp [N. Amer, informal], trudge

Encyclopedia: Squelch