Definition of Squelches

1. Verb. (third-person singular of squelch) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of squelch) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Squelches

1. squelch [v] - See also: squelch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squelches

squeezing
squeezing in
squeezing out
squeezy
squeg
squegged
squegger
squeggers
squegging
squegs
squelch
squelch circuit
squelched
squelcher
squelchers
squelches (current term)
squelchier
squelchiest
squelchiness
squelching
squelchingly
squelchy
squeteague
squeteagues
squewiff
squib
squib kick
squib kicks
squibbed
squibber

Literary usage of Squelches

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Lisa squelches him with a withering "Wise guy!" Jason is soon tired of even thinking of the new game. He knows that he has, as she says, everything in the ..."

2. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"That squelches the jealous betrothed. Now nothing remains but for you to continue to dazzle the enamored Rachel, and so present yourself to the Justice as a ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"As to who the great man was who made this destructive remark, nobody will need to guess twice; but it squelches Prof ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"As to who the great man was who made this destructive remark, nobody will need to guess twice ; but it squelches Prof. Allman, and turns the British ..."

5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... coercing his front the while; squelches both these wings furiously together ; forces the coerced centre, mostly horse, to plunge back into the Diemel, ..."

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