See squelch on Wiktionary
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"text": "Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched.",
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"text": "If you deceive us you will be squelched.",
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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2021 August 10, Laura Edelson, Damon McCoy, “We Research Misinformation on Facebook. It Just Disabled Our Accounts.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "We believe that Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch research that it considers inconvenient.",
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"To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force."
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"(transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force."
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"roman": "potušavam",
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"sense": "to halt, stop, eliminate",
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"sense": "to halt, stop, eliminate",
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"sense": "to halt, stop, eliminate",
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"roman": "uničtožátʹ",
"sense": "to halt, stop, eliminate",
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"sense": "to halt, stop, eliminate",
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"To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength."
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"(transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength."
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"text": "[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, [...]",
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"(intransitive, UK) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground."
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"roman": "šljapam",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
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"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
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"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
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"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
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"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "šljapam",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "шляпам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "čvachtat"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "faire floc floc"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "faire flip-flap"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "choupar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "batuxar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "escaldrufar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "matschen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "cuppog"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "szortyog"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "tocsog"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "szörcsög"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "xljupatʹ",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "хлюпать"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "šljapkati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "chapotear"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "klafsa"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "xljupaty",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "хлюпати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "čalapaty",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "чалапати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "šlʹopaty",
"sense": "to make a sucking, splashing noise",
"word": "шльопати"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "to walk or step through a substance such as a mud",
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],
"word": "čvachtat se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "to walk or step through a substance such as a mud",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rochnit se"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "to walk or step through a substance such as a mud",
"word": "ploeteren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "to walk or step through a substance such as a mud",
"word": "ploeteren"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "to walk or step through a substance such as a mud",
"word": "caplat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "to walk or step through a substance such as a mud",
"word": "slattyog"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to walk or step through a substance such as a mud",
"word": "klafsa"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "čalapaty",
"sense": "to walk or step through a substance such as a mud",
"word": "чалапати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "brʹoxaty",
"sense": "to walk or step through a substance such as a mud",
"word": "брьохати"
}
],
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}
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"Terms with Russian translations",
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"word": "squelch tail"
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"A heavy blow or fall."
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"(countable, dated) A heavy blow or fall."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "šljapane",
"sense": "a squelching sound",
"word": "шляпане"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "a squelching sound",
"word": "cuppogás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "a squelching sound",
"word": "szortyogás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "a squelching sound",
"word": "szörcsögés"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "a squelching sound",
"word": "pakora"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "a squelching sound",
"word": "pākorakora"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "xljupanʹje",
"sense": "a squelching sound",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "хлюпанье"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "a squelching sound",
"word": "klafs"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "potiskane",
"sense": "suppression of unwanted hiss",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "потискане"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "suppression of unwanted hiss",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rauschsperre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "suppression of unwanted hiss",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Rauschunterdrückung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "suppression of unwanted hiss",
"word": "csendeshangolás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "suppression of unwanted hiss",
"word": "zajelnyomás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "suppression of unwanted hiss",
"word": "zajzár"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "šumopodavlenije",
"sense": "suppression of unwanted hiss",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "шумоподавление"
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],
"word": "squelch"
}
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