| 单词 | squelch |
| 释义 | squelch /skweltʃ/ verb 1 SOUND[intransitive] to make a sucking sound by walking or moving in something soft and wet 〔在湿软之物中行走或移动时〕发吧唧声 My hair was dripping and my shoes squelched as I walked. 我的头发在滴水，鞋子走起来咕叽咕叽地响。squelch through/along/up We squelched across the field. 我们吧唧吧唧地走过田野。2 [transitive] American EnglishSTOP something THAT IS HAPPENING to stop something from continuing to develop or spread 压制，镇压 SYN squash Her creativity had been squelched. 她的创造力受到了压制。 —squelch noun [countable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpussquelch• It is not the emotion which is negative, but the fact that it has been squelched.• Ankle deep in mud, we squelched across the meadow.• Labor was pleased, the protests were squelched and Clinton won by a hefty margin.• Melvin was squelching around in the yard outside the cowshed.• It had been raining hard and my boots squelched as I walked across the park.• The dream squelched away as she went ankle-deep into a pool.• As I squelched my way back round the lochan's edge towards the road, I saw the diver.• He walked on, squelching now, and quite soon came to another notice.• Barrett squelched rumors that the bank will change its name.• The shortcomings of the watch, however, failed to squelch the dream of what it might do once perfected.• But the fact that the guy is wearing a Comedy Central shirt tends to squelch the impact.squelch through/along/up• Agnes hurried to the bottom of the steps, with the priest squelching along beside her.• I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits.• She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle, avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage.• What starts out as annoying becomes fun, squelching through the mud.• We squelched up the muddy path.• As we squelched along the road and into the farmyard I felt a feeling of utter exhaustion.Origin squelch (1600-1700) From the soundsquelch verbChinese in a sucking Corpus walking moving by make sound or to |
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