0 present participle of squelch
1 to make a sucking sound like the one produced when you are walking on soft, wet ground:
2 to quickly end something that is causing you problems:
A spokeswoman at the White House has squelched rumors about the president's ill health.
The senator thoroughly squelched the journalist who tried to interrupt him during his speech.
They have to remain in school all day with their little shoes squelching after their long walk across the hills.
How can she tolerate such conditions as exist when school rooms are described as "zoos"and school playgrounds as"squelching quagmires"or"dust baths"?
Well, you have not succeeded in squelching us, and we are here to-day.
And yet you are apologizing for the squelching of minority views.
Through reporting the experience of people and small businesses, he argues that these new monopolies are squelching innovation, degrading product quality and safety, and destabilizing vital industrial and financial systems.
Squelching has been mostly studied in yeast, and most of the ideas regarding its mechanisms have come from research into modes of transcriptional control in yeast.
