- to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
- to put down, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument.
- to make a splashing sound.
- to tread heavily in water, mud, wet shoes, etc., with such a sound.
- a squelched or crushed mass of anything.
- a splashing sound.
- an act of squelching or suppressing, as by a crushing retort or argument.
- a circuit in a receiver, as a radio receiver, that automatically reduces or eliminates noise when the receiver is tuned to a frequency at which virtually no carrier wave occurs.
- to walk laboriously through soft wet material or with wet shoes, making a sucking noise
- to make such a noise
- to crush completely; squash
- to silence, as by a crushing retort
- a squelching sound
- something that has been squelched
- a circuit that cuts off the audio-frequency amplifier of a radio receiver in the absence of an input signal, in order to suppress background noise
- a crushing remark
