0 to make a sucking sound like the one produced when you are walking on soft, wet ground -- (如走在濕軟土地上似的)發吧唧聲,發撲哧聲
1 to quickly end something that is causing you problems -- (迅速)制止,遏制
A spokeswoman at the White House has squelched rumors about the president's ill health. 白宮一位女發言人迅速澄清了總統健康狀況不佳的謠言。
The senator thoroughly squelched the journalist who tried to interrupt him during his speech. 參議員完全堵住了那個想在他講話時插嘴的記者。
2 a sucking sound like the one produced when you are walking on soft, wet ground -- (如走在濕軟土地上似的)發吧唧聲,發撲哧聲
However, in presidential politics, that agrarian voice was repeatedly squelched.
In reality, however, the medicalized social worth assigned both to organ donors and living recipients is far from uniform, where the myth of medical democratization squelches debates about medical justice.
In any event, he certainly didn't squelch the second edition, which will be out in 2003.
Although facts could be invented such that the legislators were really trying to squelch speed limit protests, those are not the facts of this example.
By bringing to life these punished but not passive female figures, the singers asserted the very agency that the productions attempted thematically to squelch.
Especially when faced with direct statements of intention, readers, then as now, should not be expected to squelch their inclinations to contest the validity or the relevance of surprising revelations.
They were not defeated at the polls, but squelched.
Early on, there had been speculation that either station would drop the all-news format, but these notions were squelched rather quickly.
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