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Squelch vs Spatter - What's the difference?

squelch | spatter |

As verbs the difference between squelch and spatter

is that squelch is (us) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force while spatter is to splash with small droplets.

As a noun squelch

is a squelching sound.

squelch

English

Verb

(es)
  • (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.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched .
  • * Carlyle
    • If you deceive us you will be squelched .
  • (radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of your receiver.
  • (British) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground
    • The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.
  • *
  • (British) 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

    Noun

    (squelches)
  • A squelching sound.

    • Derived terms

    * squelchy

    spatter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To splash with small droplets.
    • When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
  • To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
    • to spatter blood
    (Alexander Pope)
  • (figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

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