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Squelched   /skwɛltʃt/   Listen
Squelched

adjective
1.
Subdued or overcome.  Synonyms: quelled, quenched.  "An uprising quenched almost before it started" , "A squelched rumor"






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"Squelched" Quotes from Famous Books



... refuse to air her, even on a string. They say it becomes a little too compromising. But, as I explain to them, she's not a bit the modern woman. She belongs to a stage of social development when pretty people infinitely preferred being compromised to being squelched." The speaker laughed again quietly. "I'm not altogether sure they weren't right. When you are squelched, finished, done for, it matters precious little whether you've been compromised first or not. Don't you agree? Any way, Cappadocia's not going to be ...
— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... aware that something out of the ordinary was happening. An aged, white-whiskered man clad in a faded blue uniform had risen from his seat in the middle of the hall and was shouting and waving his arms. People near him were trying to pull him down into his seat, but he would not be squelched, he went on shouting; and the audience in part fell silent out of curiosity. "Shame! Shame!" they heard him cry. "Shame upon you!" And he pointed a trembling finger at the orator, declaring, "You are talking ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair

... kept still. I was utterly squelched. And to think that I had twice protected her from attack—the last time risking my life to save hers. It was incredible that even a daughter of the Stone Age could be so ungrateful—so heartless; but maybe her heart partook of the ...
— At the Earth's Core • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... he quaffed the new and stronger draught that Jon knew that his hope that it was citric acid was squelched. ...
— Acid Bath • Vaseleos Garson

... on and on, over the wide Mezritzer field, though the wind blew stronger and stronger. The sky grew black with clouds, and a cold, thick rain beat into our faces. Our hands were blue with the cold. Our boots squelched in the mud. We had long given up singing songs. We were tired and hungry, very hungry. We decided to sit down and rest, ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich



Words linked to "Squelched" :   suppressed, quenched, quelled



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