MEANING
1. To move through wet material with a sucking or squishing sound.
2. To stop or suppress something forcefully.
3. A sucking or squishing sound from movement in wet material.
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Words that belong together
- boots squelch
- squelch through mud
On the page
Their boots squelched through the marsh.
Wet sand squelched underfoot.
He squelched back onto the path.
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Word forms
- Base
- squelch
- Past tense
- squelched
- Past participle
- squelched
- Present participle
- squelching
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- squelch
- Present continuous
- am/is/are squelching
- Present perfect
- have/has squelched
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been squelching
- Past
- squelched
- Past continuous
- was/were squelching
- Past perfect
- had squelched
- Past perfect continuous
- had been squelching
- Future
- will squelch
- Future continuous
- will be squelching
- Future perfect
- will have squelched
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been squelching
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: squelch; squelches; squelched; squelched; squelching Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: squelches.
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