[skwelch] 
,| 1. | to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash. |
| 2. | to put down, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument. |
| 3. | to make a splashing sound. |
| 4. | to tread heavily in water, mud, wet shoes, etc., with such a sound. |
| 5. | a squelched or crushed mass of anything. |
| 6. | a splashing sound. |
| 7. | an act of squelching or suppressing, as by a crushing retort or argument. |
| 8. | Also called squelch circuit, noise suppressor. Electronics. a circuit in a receiver, as a radio receiver, that automatically reduces or eliminates noise when the receiver is tuned to a frequency at which virtually no carrier wave occurs. |
