Synonyms for squelch
skwɛltʃsquelch

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1. 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

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1. put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedownnoun

   a crushing remark

   Synonyms:
   squelch circuit, squelcher, put-down, takedown

2. squelch 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, takedown

3. squelch, 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, slosh

4. squelchverb

   make a sucking sound

   Synonyms:
   slop, squeeze, quench, splash, squish, quell, splosh, mash, crush, squash, slosh

5. squelch, 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, slosh

6. squash, 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

Matched Categories

1. • Derision
   • Press
   • Slog
   • Sound

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1. squelchverb

   Synonyms:
   crush, silence, quell, stifle, abash

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1. List of paraphrases for "squelch":

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1. Rochelle Walensky:

   Even at 18,000 cases per day( as the US had) in mid-May, we were unable to really squelch this.

2. Mehul Suthar:

   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.

3. President Barack Obama:

   We need to inspire more young people to ask about the stars, we have to watch for and cultivate and encourage those glimmers of curiosity and possibility - not suppress them, not squelch them.

4. Buddy Fenster:

   Their efforts to squelch journalism... just kills life. It kills freedom and it kills truth, they need to let him go immediately. He has not committed any crime there.

5. Thomas Rudd:

   Normally I wouldn’t speak to this but since that’s out there I think I want to squelch that—that there are no shots to the head or neck.