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/ˈskwɛlt͡ʃ/ · verb
(transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force..
Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.
Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched.
If you deceive us you will be squelched.
The party’s dominant right wing squelched not only Sherman’s hopes for an early convention, but may have also put the MLA out of contention for the leadership.
We believe that Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch research that it considers inconvenient.
The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.
[After they both fell into the lake.] Reaching the mainland some moments later and squelching back to the house, accompanied by Bobbie, like a couple of Napoleons squelching back from Moscow, [...]
The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.
Use squelch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Squelch means (transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force..
Common synonyms include quash, quell, crush, squeeze.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.
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