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Squelch vs Sqush - What's the difference?

squelch | sqush |

As verbs the difference between squelch and sqush

is that squelch is (us) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force while sqush is (intransitive|us|rare) to squash or squelch.

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

    sqush

    English

    Verb

  • (intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
  • *1885 , Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
    • Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden.
  • *1909 , Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls
  • *1965 , Ezra Pound, The Cantos
  • * 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun p. 12 "His feet squshed in the water as he went...He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little".