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Synonyms for squelch
skwɛltʃsquelch
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Wiktionary
squelchverb
to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force
Even the king’s announcement could not squelch the rumors.
Synonyms:
quash
Princeton's WordNet
put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedownnoun
a crushing remark
Synonyms:
squelch circuit, squelcher, put-down, takedownsquelch circuit, squelch, squelcherverb
an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise
Synonyms:
squelch circuit, squelcher, put-down, takedownsquelch, quell, quenchverb
suppress or crush completely
"squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
Synonyms:
quell, blow out, stay, quench, allay, crush, assuage, appease, splosh, squeeze, snuff out, slake, extinguish, mash, squish, squash, slop, splash, sloshsquelchverb
make a sucking sound
Synonyms:
slop, squeeze, quench, splash, squish, quell, splosh, mash, crush, squash, sloshsquelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slopverb
walk through mud or mire
"We had to splosh across the wet meadow"
Synonyms:
slush around, quell, swash, quench, sprinkle, slosh around, crush, swill, splatter, splosh, squeeze, plash, spatter, mash, squish, spill, squash, slop, splash, slush, sloshsquash, crush, squelch, mash, squeezeverb
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
"crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
Synonyms:
comminute, twitch, suppress, vanquish, pressure, crush, squish, grind, romance, rack, quell, twinge, splash, dally, hale, beat, press, jam, smash, wring, flirt, force, embrace, crunch, trounce, coquette, shove, thrust, chat up, demolish, butterfly, compress, hug, beat out, tweet, slop, mash, quench, contract, compact, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, philander, bosom, pinch, coquet, break down, slosh, coerce, oppress, wedge, bray, constrict, splosh, gouge, shell
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "squelch":
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#422 | press | |
#992 | stuff | |
#1001 | stay | |
#1022 | force | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1608 | pressure | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3048 | compact | |
#3616 | shell | |
#3681 | romance | |
#4680 | rack | |
#5259 | jam | |
#7213 | butterfly | |
#10795 | embrace | |
#11503 | splash | |
#11614 | squash | |
#11777 | spill | |
#12398 | crush | |
#12572 | thrust | |
#13346 | smash | |
#13411 | wedge | |
#13626 | hale | |
#13787 | squeeze | |
#13972 | hug | |
#15427 | grind | |
#16683 | suppress | |
#17127 | pinch | |
#18579 | flirt | |
#18732 | crunch | |
#19529 | compress | |
#20204 | mash | |
#21203 | bray | |
#21259 | sprinkle | |
#28447 | squish | |
#28948 | shove | |
#32051 | bosom | |
#35877 | twitch | |
#40453 | quench | |
#44813 | appease | |
#45245 | demolish | |
#45601 | slush | |
#45925 | extinguish | |
#47174 | takedown | |
#48826 | coerce | |
#53814 | splatter | |
#53900 | quell | |
#57008 | swash | |
#57646 | vanquish | |
#60356 | gouge | |
#60654 | slop | |
#62045 | squelch | |
#66240 | quash | |
#66494 | allay | |
#66795 | oppress | |
#69333 | wring | |
#73889 | tweet | |
#81209 | dally | |
#81303 | coquette | |
#89527 | assuage | |
#91682 | extort | |
#102863 | spatter | |
#104149 | twinge | |
#104410 | swill | |
#108267 | constrict | |
#124580 | philander | |
#141749 | slake | |
#144808 | trounce | |
#146260 | slosh | |
#228775 | coquet |
How to use squelch in a sentence?
We find it critical to hear more than one side of a story and more importantly, not to squelch a writer's right to be heard, when speakers are shouted down or even assaulted on campuses simply for having a different point of view, journalists are banned from press conferences and truth is too often dismissed as 'fake news,' we as publishers prefer to give voice to a respected writer and filmmaker, rather than bow to the politically correct pressures of the modern world.
Even at 18,000 cases per day( as the US had) in mid-May, we were unable to really squelch this.
It's time to drain the Washington swamp for good, and that starts with calling out left-wing hypocrites like Porter, once again, woke progressives like Rep. Porter are happy to receive government-funded salaries, benefits, and now subsidized housing for themselves, while driving our economy into the gutter and doing everything possible to squelch opposition.
These data, while concerning and certainly raise the concern level for this particular variant of concern, it really does provide the need to really increase vaccination rates and how vaccines will provide a way forward to reduce the number of infections and squelch a really a dire situation in India right now.
New York State Supreme Court got New York State Supreme Court right in rejecting the Robert Trump family's effort to squelch Mary Trump's core political speech on important issues of public concern.
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