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"An occasional patch of hard gray stone poked through the grass, but all it meant was that her paws were rubbed raw instead of squelching with greenish water." (The Seekers by Erin Hunter, 82)

Definition:

verb (used with object)

1.

to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.

2.

to put down, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument.

verb (used without object)

3.

to make a splashing sound.

4.

to tread heavily in water, mud, wet shoes, etc., with such a sound.

noun

5.

a squelched or crushed mass of anything.

6.

a splashing sound.

7.

an act of squelching or suppressing, as by a crushing retort or argument.

8.

Also called squelch circuit, noise suppressor. Electronics. a circuit in a receiver, as a radio receiver,that automatically reduces or eliminates noise when the receiver is tuned to a frequency atwhich virtually no carrier wave occurs.