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    squelch
    squelch /skweltʃ/ verb
     Date: 1600-1700
     Origin: From the sound
    1. [intransitive] to make a sucking sound by walking or moving in something soft and wet:
        My hair was dripping and my shoes squelched as I walked.
        squelch through/along/up
        We squelched across the field.
    2. [transitive] American English to stop something from continuing to develop or spread
       SYN  squash:
        Her creativity had been squelched.
    —squelch noun [countable]