Usually means: Suppress or silence unwanted noise.
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  1. squelch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. squelch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. squelch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. squelch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. squelch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Squelch, squelch: Wordnik
  7. squelch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. squelch: Wiktionary
  9. squelch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. squelch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. squelch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. squelch: Dictionary.com
  13. squelch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. squelch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Squelch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Squelch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. squelch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. squelch: Rhymezone
  19. squelch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. squelch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. squelch: Free Dictionary
  22. squelch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Squelch: The Word Detective
  24. squelch: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. squelch: Legal dictionary

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  1. squelch: Encyclopedia

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  1. squelch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. squelch: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
verb:  (transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
verb:  (intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
verb:  (intransitive, British) To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
noun:  (countable) A squelching sound.
noun:  (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
noun:  (countable, dated) A heavy blow or fall.
noun:  (countable, music) A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.

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