different between squelch vs sqush

English

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of squash +? quell +? quench. Compare also English squolsh, English squoosh.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /?skw?lt?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?

Verb

squelch (third-person singular simple present squelches, present participle squelching, simple past and past participle squelched)

1. (transitive, US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force

   Even the king’s announcement could not squelch the rumors.

   • Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched.

   • If you deceive us you will be squelched.

2. (transitive, radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength, below which the signal is suppressed by applying a gain of zero, and above which a positive (and linear from zero) gain is applied.
3. (intransitive, Britain) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground

   The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.
4. (intransitive, Britain) to walk or step through a substance such as mud

   The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.

Synonyms

• (to halt): quash

Translations

Noun

squelch (countable and uncountable, plural squelches)

1. (countable) A squelching sound.
2. (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
3. (countable, dated) A heavy blow or fall.
4. (countable, music) A kind of electronic beat used in acid house and related music genres.
   • 1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music (page 91)

     Through a process of experimentation the 'acid squelch' sound came forth, which was recorded and passed on to DJ Ron Hardy to play at his Warehouse club.

Derived terms

• break squelch
• squelchy

Translations

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

sqush (third-person singular simple present squshes, present participle squshing, simple past and past participle squshed)

1. (intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
   • 1909, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls

     […] it was little better than a swamp, and at every step their shoes went sqush […]

   • 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun (page 12)

     His feet squshed in the water as he went […] He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little.

   • 1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” in Leaves of Grass, page 36:

     […] At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush....sucking the juice through a straw,